Handmade Brick from Watt's Store

Object/Artifact

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The Great Bend Museum

Name/Title

Handmade Brick from Watt's Store

Entry/Object ID

2006.02.06

Description

Red brick with 10 holes molded. Hand made brick from The Watt's Store building, south of sand street, Ravenswood. The kiln was owned by Anthony Keller and his son John. The kiln was destroyed by the flood of 1913. All brick buildings in the city of Ravenswood were built with brick burned in the Keller kins before 1913. Anthony Keller and his son John built a broom factory in the rear of his home on Gallatin street.

Acquisition

Accession

2006.02

Source or Donor

Ruth Keller Jones

Lexicon

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

Brick