Historical Images of Porter County

Chicago Hydraulic Pressed Brick Company, Rack Car
Porter, Indiana

Date: 1906
Source Type: Photograph
Publisher, Printer, Photographer: The Clay-Worker, March 1906
Postmark: Not Applicable
Collection: Steven R. Shook
Remark: In 1890, the Chicago Hydraulic Pressed Brick Company established a large production facility at Porter. Two additional facilities were erected in Porter over the next decade. On October 21, 1904, the plant was destroyed by fire, with the exception of the barns, clay sheds, and some minor buildings. The fire resulted in a loss reported to be $50,000. Early in the spring of 1905 the plant was rebuilt, and the buildings were made to be more fire proof. The image how the brick manufacturing facility in 1906 after it was rebuilt. The facility ceased operations in 1924 when clay was becoming to scarce, and thereby too expensive, to make brick manufacturing profitable in the area.

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Image and related text prepared by Steven R. Shook