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Clark County History: Brickmaking in Clark County By Martin Middlewood, for The Columbian
Published: December 13, 2020, 6:05am
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3 Photos A Hidden Brickyard crew pauses for this undated photo. (Contributed by Clark County Historical Museum) Photo Gallery
Bricks, the oldest of handmade building materials, date back 9,000 years. But in Clark County, only to about 1846, when the Hudson’s Bay Company fabricated the area’s first bricks near today’s Amtrak station. The shallow clay was easy to dig, and laborers dried the bricks close by.
In and around Vancouver, about 10 clay yards operated at different times. The Hidden family is the most well-known and successful of local brickmakers. Still, the Hiddens had competition. In Clark County, clay miners worked pits at Ridgefield, Image, Salmon Creek and Fargher Lake.