The Red Wing Stone Ware Manufacturing Company have established a pottery in the city, where they carry on an extensive business in the manufacture of all kinds of stone ware and fire brick. The clay is procured from section 10, in the township of Goodhue. The fire brick made from this clay is said to be fully equal to the best fire brick from Ohio. (History of Goodhue County, Including a Sketch of the Territory and State of Minnesota, Wood, Alley & Co., Red Wing, Minnesota, Pioneer Press Company, St. Paul, 1878, Page 199)