THE FIRST BRICK. The first manufacturing industry in the county was, probably, that of making brick. Captain J. B. Gillit, in August and September, of 1856, made a small kiln of excellent brick on lands adjoining the village site of Blue Earth City. (The History of Faribault County Minnesota, From its First Settlement to the Close of the Year 1879, J. A. Kiester, Harrison & Smith, Minneapolis, 1896, Page 586)