Photos - Medora Brick Plant

Photos

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Workers Building 2005

Cindy Seigle Photo Collection 2005

A beautiful collection of 46 Medora Brick Plant color photos taken in 2005 by photographer Cindy Seigle.

Thanksgiving meal the day before Thanksgiving meal at Medora Brick Plant 1952

Thanksgiving meal the day before Thanksgiving meal at Medora Brick Plant 1952

Bernard A. Gray Photo Collection

1953 from the left front row Bee Brown, Dick Blackwood, Tal Reynolds, dick Lambert. Back row from left: Lon Greathouse, Ike Hamilton, Ross Hill, Lucian Pruitt, Clarence "Cassum" Watts.

1958 from left: front-Jack Hughes, Jennings Turney. Back from left: Ray Greathouse, Ernie Reynolds inside kiln.

1950 from left: Jack Hughes, Jennings Turney, Ray Greathouse, Earnest Reynolds.

Ralph Gray at Medora Brick Plant in 1965.

1940 brick delivery truck

~ 1950 from left: Ab Murphin, Elza Beavers, Clarence Williams, Roy Hubbard.

Plant workers ~ 1951. Email us if you know their names.

~ 1950 from the left Jack Hughes, Jennings Turney, Ray Greathouse, Earnest Reynolds.

~1950 sitting on a low brick wall next to the plant office (since gone). From left: child, Erridine Gray, Francis Trueblood, Ralph Gray, and unknown man.

Unknow "tosser" filling a kiln for firing in the 1980s. Name? If you know, please email us.

Medora Brick Plant ~ 1950

After 1945 - from the west in the yard of the home that served as the plant manager's residence looking toward the horse barn/employee changing area.

Oldest know photo of the plant

Oldest known photo of the plant - perhaps 1914

Paul Carr Photo Collection

Delivery truck driven by Wilburn "Boob" Davis.

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plant look ~ 1950s

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January 1917 add for Medora Brick Plant's street pavers.

Oldest know photo of the plant

Plant aerial photo ~1988

Plant aerial photo ~1988 by Mark Hill taken from the nearby grain elevator

Mark Hill Photo Collection

Mark Hill photo of brick plant 1988

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Steve Graves Photo Collection 2005

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Employee changing area 2005

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Plant office 2005

Medora Brick Plant photo circa 1960s

Miscellaneous Photo Images

With the smoke stacks and kilns of the Medora Brick Plant in the background (right) this Sparksville Baltimore & Ohio Railroad section crew poses at the head of the brick plant spur. Supervisor at far left is believed to be Elmer Rudder who later (1914) was a supervisor at the plant. No date or names known for sure, but if you have information about this photo, please email info@medorabrickplant.org photo credit - the Jackson County, Indiana, Digital History Archive Project

Sketch of property layout 2016

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Medora train station back in the day 1920s?

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Medora Brick Plant photo circa 1960s