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| Picture | Business Name | Location | Owner/Operator | Dates of Operation | Comments: |
| Fields Brickyard | John & Holstein Fields | 1867 - ? | |||
| Harbison-Walker Refractories Company | Front & Welsh St. | "Made open hearth fire brick for lining steel blast
furnaces and other firebrick.. Don Kreble was Super, Bob Volkhardt office manager. I was a clerk for about a year there, first job I ever had. Rush Miller, packing and shipping. (my uncle). Ed Bowley, my father, foreman all plant maintenance and machine shop.. The ore was shipped up the Delaware river, unloaded and processed at the plant. Mixed and fired on site. Shipped to Pittsburgh Bethlehem steel, United Steel and others. I made the billing for rail shipment." Thanks to |
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| Powell's Quarries | First Ward, Chester | Had been out of operation for some time by 1902. | |||
| Price Brickyard | Concord Ave. near 9th St. | Had 3 kilns and in September 1907, was proposed to be operated again by Fields Brothers of Eddystone | |||
| Samuel J. Rose | E. 10th
St. between Potter & Upland
later moved to: 21st St. & Providence Ave. |
Samuel J. Rose | Retired by 1902 |
