CALIFORNIA BRICKS
Brand name: STAR
Company: W.S. Dickey Clay Manufacturing Co., Plant 19
Location: Livermore, Alameda County, CA
Years: 1926-1936
Type: Fire brick
Description: Brand name impressed into the face.
Equipment: Storage sheds, dry-pan grinding machines, bucket elevator, screens, Bonnet single-screw auger,
stiff-mud extruder, automatic wire cutters, two stamping machines, 10 70-ft. long drying tunnels, 6 round
10 burner gas-fired 26-ft. down-draft kiln, 2 15-ft. muffle kiln, 3 rectangular stacks 50 ft. high
Deposit: Fire clay from Calaveras and Amador counties. Surficial clay deposit on property.
Comments: Formerly the plant of the Livermore Fire Brick Company, established in 1910. For further details about this company, see
W. S. Dickey Clay Manufacturing Company, Plant No. 19, Livermore.
Source: California Division of Mines and Geology v. 46, no. 2, 1950; Mosier, Dan, History of Brickmaking
in the Livermore Valley, Livermore Heritage Guild, February 1983.
Plant of the Livermore Fire Brick Works, Livermore, CA.
From Oakland Tribune Annual Year Book, 1923.
Comments or questions are welcomed.
Please send email to Dan Mosier at danmosier@earthlink.net.