Bricks that may have survived Fargo fire of 1893 to be used in community healing garden Purington Pavers were a popular street paving brick in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

In 1872, a major fire struck the Lehigh Fire Brick works. The works were immediately rebuilt, but the collapse of the railroad building boom in the Panic of 1873 had a major impact on McHose; he ...