Page 260. Bricks were first made in this county about the year 1855 by Lyman Dayton; and this work is still carried on at the same place, which is about a

Page 261. half mile west of Dayton, in the south edge of section 36, Otsego. It is a third or half mile distant from the two adjacent rivers, and some 40 feet above them. (A Report on the Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota, 1882-1885, The Geology of Minnesota, Volume II, N. H. Winchell and Warren Upham, Pioneer Press Company, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1888)