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May 21, 2021 · A century ago, brickmaking along the Hudson River was thriving. Then the industry vanished. Share full article. Workers using the Richard A. Ver Valen automatic brick-making machine, which was ...
Jan 11, 2018 · At the turn of the 20th century, the Hudson Valley was the brickmaking capital of the world, producing more than a billion bricks a year and employing nearly 10,000 people in more than 120 brickyards. By the late 1970s, the once-mighty molded-brick industry was no more. One by one, the great yards had closed their gates, leaving behind a small-but-colorful legacy of people who remember the ...
An old Lidgerwood crane at Hutton Brickyards, once a factory and now a boutique hotel and retreat in Kingston, N.Y., on May 3, 2021. A century ago, brickmaking along the Hudson River was thriving. Then the industry vanished. Lauren Lancaster/The New York Times. by Devorah Lev-Tov
The background for this page is from bricks found in the Hudson River area of New York State. where hundreds of brick-making factories existed from the late 1700s into the 1940s. During the last Ice Age in the Hudson Valley area, blankets of ice weighing millions of tons crushed the rocks of many mountains into a spectacular deposit of flour ...
1815 – A revolution in brick making. James Wood, the father of the brick industry in New York, arrives in Haverstraw and starts a brickyard near the Harbors. His method of mixing ‘culm’ – fine coal dust – reduces the burning time of a brick in a kiln, from 14 days to seven. Burning Kiln with cord wood c1890.
THE HUTTON NAME. In 1865 William Hutton and John Cordts purchased land along the Hudson River. The Hutton Brickyards quickly became a major manufacturer of quality brick, operating continually for more than 100 years (1865 to 1980). Cordts retired in 1887, and Hutton continued on as the president and sole owner until his death in 1897. Although ...
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Dec 11, 2023 · Haverstraw, on the west bank of the river in Rockland County, became the brick-making capital of the world (thanks to Richard A. Ver Valen’s invention of an automatic brick-making machine in 1852), and reportedly shipped out over 300 million bricks to the New York City area annually – until 1906, when a landslide caused by the excavation of material to make those bricks killed 19 people ...
