This was posted on the Purington (various spellings) list.  My husband's
father's family were connected to the Purington's.  Ruth




The first brick was manufactured in the

Galesburg area in 1849 by Henry Grosscup,

a German stone mason. D. V. Purington and

W. S. Purington purchased the land in 1890

and by 1930 sixty miles of brick streets were

laid in Galesburg. The U.S. government

selected Purington Pavers to pave the streets

of the city of Panama City when building the

Panama Canal. The bricks were dispersed

around the world to places such as Chicago,

Deadwood, SD, the Bazaar in Bombay, India,

and Paris, France. The Purington Brick Co.

was once the largest producer of brick pavers

in the world with 800 workers producing

150,000 bricks a day. Asphalt became the

favored roadway covering and the factory

closed in 1974.

Although there are many different pavers they

are generally 9?? x 4?? x 3.5?? and weigh 9lbs.

Gavin Historical Bricks has brought the old

brickyard back to life. Historical Bricks is

now reclaiming brick from the interior kiln

walls and staging areas of the Purington

Brickyard. n
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Ruth Barton
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Dummerston, VT

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