CALIFORNIA BRICKS
Brand name: REMILLARD
Company: Remillard Brick Company, San Jose plant (1891-1915)
Location: Remillard and Story roads, San Jose, Santa Clara County, CA
Years: 1985-1915
Type: Common brick
Description: Brand name impressed on one of the faces.
Equipment: Soft-mud process using wooden brick molds and one Hoffman continuous kiln.
Capacity: 50,000 brick per day
Production rate: 13 million brick per year
Deposit: Clay quarry on Coyote Creek.
Comments: For more information about this company, see under Brickmakers Remillard Brick Company, San Jose.
Source: California Division of Mines Report 11, 1893, p. 375; California Division of Mines Report 12, 1893, p. 94.; California Division of Mines Report 13, 1896, p. 618;
California Division of Mines Report 26, 1930, p.6; Foote, H.S., Pen Pictures from the Garden of the World or Santa Clara County, California, The Lewis Publishing Co., 1888;
Guinn, J.M., History of the State of California and Biographical Record of Coast Counties, California, The Chapman Publishing Co., 1904; San Jose City Directories, 1892-1915.
Remillard Brick Co. plant and brick yard, San Jose.
From H.S Foote, 1888.
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