AREA HISTORY:  Paradise Brick Yard, Paradise Township, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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PARADISE BRICK YARD – Page 684

In the year 1858, P. S. Alwine, began burning bricks, on his farm in this 
township, and has continued the business in the same place ever since, even 
during the exciting times of the civil war.  At this yard, about 300,000 bricks 
were made annually, or about 8,000,000 in the twenty-six years of its existence.  
About 3,000 cords of woods have been consumed in burning the bricks.  Mr. Alwine 
owns a large yard and kiln at New Oxford, and one at Spring Grove.  At each of 
these places, he manufactures about 700,000 bricks annually.