De L'Aigle Brick Yard
In 1808, Nicholas de L´Aigle, a French refugee, established the brick yards 1/4 mile south which furnished Augusta with building brick for 75 years. River clay was "pugged" to the right consistency in a cylindrical vat by a stone turned with mule-power, and hand-moulded into bricks which were air-dried, built into kilns, and fired. Many old houses in Augusta and elsewhere in Georgia and the Carolinas are built of these bricks.
Plaque courtesy Lat34North.com.
Original page, with additional info, here.
Photo credit: Ken Moser.