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"Did you ever stop to think just how important a business factor the Wooster Shale Brick Co. is? Look at the illustrations on the opposite page. Thousands and thousands of dollars are invested in this mammoth plant and it ranks with the biggest in the United States. The company manufactures the "Wooster Paver", a brick known in practically every municipality in this and adjoining states. This brick has done more to carry the name of Wooster through out this territory than all other products combined as it is seen wherever we walk or ride. No other article can possibly give and equal amount of publicity.
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==Timeline==
 
==Timeline==

Revision as of 17:21, 5 March 2020

Wooster Shale Brick Company
Formerly called Wooster Shale Brick & Clay Company
Former type Shale manufacturing; Bricks manufacturing
Industry Mining; Manufacturing
Fate Dissolved
Founded Wooster, Ohio (1892 (1892))
Founder(s) W. R. Barnhart (1907- )
Defunct 1971 (1971)
Headquarters Wooster, Ohio, United States
Number of locations 0000 Mechanicsburg Rd., Wooster, Ohio; Office: 201 W. Liberty St., Wooster, Ohio
Key people Albert Shupe Temp Mgr; W. R. Barnhart Owner (1907- ); 1946 Owners: Robert Critchfield, Miles Beeler, Lloyd Stevens, Emmit Dix, Manual Claporlas, Francis Template:Whitaker, Scot Gisinger (1946- )

Locations

City Directories

Comprehensive History

Slogans

Historical documents

  • Wooster Progress (1914)
    • 1914 - Manufacturing

"Did you ever stop to think just how important a business factor the Wooster Shale Brick Co. is? Look at the illustrations on the opposite page. Thousands and thousands of dollars are invested in this mammoth plant and it ranks with the biggest in the United States. The company manufactures the "Wooster Paver", a brick known in practically every municipality in this and adjoining states. This brick has done more to carry the name of Wooster through out this territory than all other products combined as it is seen wherever we walk or ride. No other article can possibly give and equal amount of publicity. 

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Timeline

  • 1892 - Wooster Shale Brick Company incorporated under the laws of Ohio.
  • 1907 - Company was sold to W. R. Barnhart[3]
  • 1916 - The Shale Brick & Tile Company of Malvern, Ohio, purchased the Wooster company.
  • 1946 - Sold the company to Robert Critchfield, Miles Beeler, Lloyd Stevens, Emmit Dix, Manual Claporlas, Francis Template:Whitaker, Scot Gisinger.
  • 1963 - March 6, the name was changed to Medal Brick, Incorporated and formed with E. C. Myers as President.
  • 1971 - June, Announced the closing of the company, because they could not meet anti-pollution-control measures due to flying ash and smoke. After this date they began demolition of the physical plant.

Gallery

Historical documents

Business photos

Newspaper articles

Newspaper full-text articles

  • Wayne County Democrat article, Local News, 1892-JUL-20 p.3

Newspaper ads

Newspaper citations with no attached images

References

  1. ↑ Complete Directory of Wooster and Orrville, Ohio and Wayne County Gazaetter for 1912-1913
  2. ↑ Wooster Progress. 1914, p. 8-9.
  3. ↑ A Change at the Plant: W.R. Barnhart Assumes Ownership of Wooster Concure| Wooster Republican, 5-15-1907, p.5

See also google book article: Modern Clay Hauling

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