AREA HISTORY:  Brick Yard, Spring Grove, 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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BRICK YARD – Page 691

Peter S. Alwine, who owns a brick yard in Paradise Township and one near New 
Oxford, Adams County, commenced burning brick at Spring Grove in the year 1879, 
and makes at Spring Forge about 700,000 bricks annually.  Ten men are regularly 
employed.  June 26, 1884, the great flood destroyed nearly the entire yard to 
the amount of $2,000; but in the autumn of the same year it was in full 
operation at a more secure place.  He consumes 300 cords of week each year.