Hidden Columbia: Landrum & Stork Brickyard Traditional Cache
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Hidden Columbia: Landrum & Stork Brickyard
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Match stick container. Park only in GUEST spots or your car may
be towed. Cache is located on the back side of the chimney in the
stump of a small shrub type tree.
Please only search during daylight hours!
This is the 6th in a series called Hidden Columbia. The point of
these caches are to point out places and things that you might not
have known about.
It's alone and largely ignored now, but it represents a history of
groundbreaking craftsmanship and racial harmony. Located at the
Brickyard Condominiums, this chimney is all that remains of the
Landrum & Stork Family Pottery and Brickyard.
For the history about this chimney...we have to go back to 1832
when Abner Landrum moved to Columbia. He brought with him pottery
making skills he crafted in Edgefield, SC. He moved to the present
Bethel Church Road area and established the Landrum Brick and
Pottery Company which operated from 1832 until 1911. He introduced
alkaline glaze pottery to the area and fire bricks which could
withstand intensive heat that made them suitable as liners for
stoves, fireplaces, boilers and heaters.
Many of the first employees were slaves but would later become paid
employees along side their white counterparts. In 1911, Robert
Manning Stork, who married into the family, changed the name to
R.M. Stork Brickyards. He built a school in the 1920's for the
black employees' children to attend.
The brickyard continued to make bricks until the 1960's and was
closed officially in 1970.
This chimney is all that remains of the company. But there are
still traces of the Landrum & Stork families in the area.
Several streets in this area are named after them and there is a
family cemetery located close by. (See waypoint below)
The original Landrum-Stork house is also a few blocks away. But
since it is occupied I didn't waypoint it.
These series of caches were inspired by ABC Columbia News that has
a segment called "Hidden Columbia". (Search for it on
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