I did some digging around the Rocheblave house a few years ago to do some plantings. Ran into the same thing, although JimL concluded the bricks were land fill comprised of debris from previous fires. I used a long iron bar to pry bricks out, since they were wedged in pretty well. Between what I dug up and what I could salvage from the empty lot next door, I had enough to widen by about a foot the concrete path from the side door to the back yard with bricks.

Someone stole most of them.

Fucker.

But there's a few left near the gate.

The smaller fragments (and some oyster shells) were used to fill a depression between the sidewalk and driveway. That seems to be holding up very well.
- mark 5-21-2008 6:42 pm [add a comment]

i posted this a little while back. after noticing them on a nola toh episode .



i went to college in denton tx and there was a brickworks on the edge of town. they were a nasty yellow from local nasty yellow clay and in turn all the campus bldgs were that same nasty yellow.



ill be looking more into the regional nature of brick making. taking names and making notes on the subject.
- bill 5-21-2008 7:14 pm [add a comment]

brick collecting
- bill 5-21-2008 7:16 pm [add a comment]