De L Aigle Brick Yards
In 1808, Nicholas de L Aigle, a French
refugee established brick yards 1/4 mile
south which furnished Augusta with
building bricks for 75 years. River clay
was "pugged" to the right consisteney
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 on Walton Way near 3rd Street, on the right when traveling east.
Courtesy hmdb.org
