Love this sentence from your piece, “The marrow of Mother Earth baked into bone”. Bricks are everlastingly strong and quite heavy, some of the old ones, anyway.
In the 70s when I was a reporter et The Journal in West Columbia, I did a story on the old Guignard Brick Works in Cayce/West Columbia.
Our first house in New Orleans was built with old brick from a demolished building downtown.
I found this at COLAtoday :
“The old brick-making business in Cayce/West Columbia, SC, that utilized beehive kilns is the Guignard Brick Works. Established in 1801 by the Guignard family, the site near the Congaree River featured four prominent brick beehive kilns, which still stand today as a historic site.”
Thank you. I remember Guignard Brickworks and beehive is a great way to describe the kilns. Over in Edgefield County, SC, they have a groundhog kiln built into the earth with which they fired pottery, famous pottery.
I love all your photos and the brick headstones are so unique. I am always amazed to see so many chimneys from yesteryear remaining, long after the homestead itself has disappeared. And, to see greenery growing from a brick wall shows how tenacious Mother Earth can be and is. Thank you for your story.
Bricks all that remains of a once populated home, school, church, even a town, all in the name of progress as we leave behind the past. Thks for sharing your keepers.
Love this sentence from your piece, “The marrow of Mother Earth baked into bone”. Bricks are everlastingly strong and quite heavy, some of the old ones, anyway.
In the 70s when I was a reporter et The Journal in West Columbia, I did a story on the old Guignard Brick Works in Cayce/West Columbia.
Our first house in New Orleans was built with old brick from a demolished building downtown.
I found this at COLAtoday :
“The old brick-making business in Cayce/West Columbia, SC, that utilized beehive kilns is the Guignard Brick Works. Established in 1801 by the Guignard family, the site near the Congaree River featured four prominent brick beehive kilns, which still stand today as a historic site.”
Thank you. I remember Guignard Brickworks and beehive is a great way to describe the kilns. Over in Edgefield County, SC, they have a groundhog kiln built into the earth with which they fired pottery, famous pottery.
I love all your photos and the brick headstones are so unique. I am always amazed to see so many chimneys from yesteryear remaining, long after the homestead itself has disappeared. And, to see greenery growing from a brick wall shows how tenacious Mother Earth can be and is. Thank you for your story.
Bricks all that remains of a once populated home, school, church, even a town, all in the name of progress as we leave behind the past. Thks for sharing your keepers.
I also collect bricks as reminders of the past quickly being erased by Lexington County "improvements."
Yeah, progress is so great.