Mr. L. F. Von Wimpffen laid out the new brick yard at Dresbach on Tuesday. To-day he celebrated his fortieth birthday. (Winona Daily Republican, Wednesday, April 26, 1882, Page 3)
Dresbach is truly enjoying a “boom” this season in all that the word implies. The four brick yards will soon be in operation and manufacturing daily a combined product of seventy-five thousand bricks. Messrs. Smith and Williams are progressing rapidly with their new yard, which was recently surveyed by our county surveyor, Mr. VonWimpffen. Messrs. Sherwood & Johnson will soon have their two yards in operation. The one that is being supplied with steam power is being rapidly brought to completion. The engine used by the firm is from the Atlas engine works, Indianapolis, Indiana, and of a twenty-horse power capacity. The Northwestern Brick Company expect to be manufacturing brick by the 15th of May in the new yard, which by the way, seems to have formerly been a bone yard or burying ground of some past race of human beings, as in excavating for their yard the decayed remains of twelve or thirteen bodies were exhumed from the mounds of graves. (Winona Daily Republican, Tuesday, May 2, 1882, Page 1)