De L Aigle Brick Yard
In 1808, Nicholas de L' Aigle, a French
refugee, established brick yards 1/4 mile
south which furnished Augusta with building
brick for 75 years. River clay was "pugged"
to the right constency in a cylindrical vat
by a stone turned with mule-power and
hand-moulded into bricks which were
air-dried , built into kilns, and fired. Many
old houses in Augusta and elsewhere in
Georgia and the Carolinas are built of
these bricks.
Marker is at the intersection of DeLaigle Avenue and 2nd Street, on the left when traveling north on DeLaigle Avenue.
Courtesy hmdb.org
