Finding the Brickyard

Finding the Brickyard

In Brickyard Creek Chronicles, Chapter 4: Naming the Creek, we gave you a brief history on the development of a brickyard at Roy’s Point by Col. Rudd. Rudd had leased the land at Roy’s Point from William Dalrymple. The Bayfield Brick Manufacturing Company was only in operation from 1889 to 1892, probably coming to its demise as the result of the Financial Panic of 1893.

Sense of Place – The Good Oak

Sense of Place – The Good Oak

Sense of Place – The Good Oak By: Jeff Rennicke, Executive Director, Friends of Apostle Islands National Lakeshore Photo: Jeff Rennicke Trees measure time in concentric rings – not hours or days. In this classic essay about time and human history, Aldo Leopold...