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The Mailbox Made Out of the Town

3. VIEW SOUTHWEST OF MAILBOX BASE MADE OF REFRACTORY BRICKS FROM THE THREE MT. UNION BRICKYARDS. LOCATED AT THE CORNER OF MARKET AND SOUTH JEFFERSON
3. VIEW SOUTHWEST OF MAILBOX BASE MADE OF REFRACTORY BRICKS FROM THE THREE MT. UNION BRICKYARDS. LOCATED AT THE CORNER OF MARKET AND SOUTH JEFFERSONLibrary of Congress, Historic American Buildings Survey / Historic American Engineering Record. No known copyright restrictions. pa2848.photos.038944p

When the last of it was over, the town went and got the bricks.

A committee collected brick and some of the most elaborate shapes from all three Mount Union plants and built a platform for a mailbox on the public sidewalk beside the post office, at Market and South Jefferson. The plaque set into it reads Bricktown Ganister and lists the plants by name. Look closely at the picture and you can pick out the shapes that were never ordinary bricks at all.

The Mount Union Times ran it under a headline that got it right: Mailbox Holder A Tribute To Bricktowners' Heritage.

Sources

  1. HABS PA-5974 p.8
  2. HABS PA-5973 p.39
  3. Mt. Union Times, 14 September 1990, cited therein
  4. LOC caption pa2848.photos.038944p

Checked 2026-08-29 · Historic Mount Union collection

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