Mount Union borough
The General Refractories Office
The General Refractories Company office in Mount Union. Harbison-Walker gets the headlines, but it wasn't the only brick empire in town, General Refractories ran its own plant and its own company houses on the east end, all of it built on Jacks Mountain ganister.
Sources
- Brick Yards README + LOC HAER pa2851 (General Refractories Co. Office)
- Photograph credit: Library of Congress (HAER)
Checked 2026-07-15 · Historic Mount Union collection
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