Brickyard in 1887
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This 1887 photograph, reprinted in the Spokesman-Review in 1919, show men digging clay for the brickyard that once stood near the park. Owned by J. T. Davis, the brickyard was active only a few years before the deposits of clay were exhausted. Bricks from this site were used in many of the earliest Spokane buildings. Image Courtesy of the Google News Archive.
This file appears in: From Brickyard to Park: Cannon Hill Park: This quiet park was once a busy brickyard.
From Brickyard to Park: Cannon Hill Park: This quiet park was once a busy brickyard.
Cannon Hill Park was originally home to a brickyard. Henry Brook discovered a clay deposit in the 1880s and it was used for making bricks. Cannon Hill bricks were widely used in downtown buildings as…