Site of Fraser Brick Company
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txoilgas
N 32° 51.172 W 095° 43.538
15S E 244921 N 3638268
Located at a roadside pulloff.
Waymark Code: WM7VBT
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 12/06/2009
Views: 10
Marker Number: 10858
Marker Text:
Here in 1905 Walter B. Fraser (1877-1968) built a pioneer Texas factory which produced bricks and hollow clay building tile. This was the first industrial plant in Rains County and it employed about 40 men. When, in 1909, a post office was established near here, its name "Ginger" was taken from the distinctive color of the burnt clay bricks made at the plant. Operations ceased when this clay supply neared exhaustion in the 1940s. Walter B. Fraser retired in 1944. The business prospered at its other Texas locations until sold in 1961.
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