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| View of Monument from Sidewalk |
This Pokestop/historical marker is located in the corner of the CAL Ranch Stores parking lot in Cedar City, Utah. It is on the edge of the lot, nearest the intersection of 800 South and Main Street. The marker was erected in 1990 by the Iron County Historical Society, along with Cedar City Corporation, Melling Masonry, Big D Construction Corporation, and Walmart Stores, Inc. The last contributor is significant because before it was a CAL Ranch, the building housed Walmart.
The monument reads as follows:"It is believed that the first fired brick in Utah were made in Cedar City in connection with the attempt of the Deseret Iron Company to manufacture Iron in 1852. The blast furnace was located in the vicinity of 400 North and 100 East. Fired brick was made near there for use in the lining of the blast furnace and construction of some brick homes and public buildings.
By the turn of the century, most of the brickmaking operations had been moved to the southern outskirts of the city. These were located here, immediately north, northeast, east and southeast of this monument. They supplied the bricks for homes, commercial and public buildings for Cedar City and some surrounding areas, until well into the 1930's. The Old Administration Building and the Old Main Building on the Southern Utah University campus, several blocks north of here, were constructed from brick made here. It is a memorial to the various brick makers including Bryant, Fretwell, Dutton, Rollo, Jakeman Palmer, and others unrecorded and those who worked for them."
Unfortunately I haven't been able to find any more information available online regarding the Brickyards in Cedar City.I did, however, find some of the photos used for the monument. They can be accessed through Southern Utah University's Sherratt Library. Below are the links to two of the photos which are hosted on the library's digital archive.
