Readers pitch answers to brick mystery, amend wood pilings history
WE ASKED: Help our Readers Reporter solve the great brick mystery. Last week, our Readers Reporter tracked down the history behind old wood pilings along the shoreline of the North Thompson River, near Rayleigh. It was discovered that the pilings are remnants of an old riverside brickyard operation that turned out thousands of bricks a day in the late-1800s and shipped them downriver by barge. While onsite getting photographs of the pilings, our Readers Reporter found four large curved bricks i...
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