Thank you for this Jackie, my maternal Italian great grandfather also worked the mines. Specifically the clay mines near the Hill, where he settled. So, I eat this up! :)
Glad to help! I'm going to try to find more information about Laclede Fire Brick/Laclede-Christy from archives sometime in the future, and if I do, I will let you know.
Per the off-shoot conversation of Black mining communities, the only one I have seen documented was along Sublette, close to Laclede Christy & Sulphur Springs in a hand drawn map on Bob Corbetts Cheltenham page in link below. You have probably already seen this though. The oral history passed down on my Italian side (for the closest Black community to the Hill at the turn of the century) matches this map well- for what its worth. http://faculty.webster.edu/corbetre/dogtown/maps/sulphur.html
Thank you for this Jackie, my maternal Italian great grandfather also worked the mines. Specifically the clay mines near the Hill, where he settled. So, I eat this up! :)
That’s awesome!
Thanks for the presentation and history.
Thanks for the strongest lead yet on where my father worked when he was one of Laclede Brick's bookkeepers!
Glad to help! I'm going to try to find more information about Laclede Fire Brick/Laclede-Christy from archives sometime in the future, and if I do, I will let you know.
Per the off-shoot conversation of Black mining communities, the only one I have seen documented was along Sublette, close to Laclede Christy & Sulphur Springs in a hand drawn map on Bob Corbetts Cheltenham page in link below. You have probably already seen this though. The oral history passed down on my Italian side (for the closest Black community to the Hill at the turn of the century) matches this map well- for what its worth. http://faculty.webster.edu/corbetre/dogtown/maps/sulphur.html
Thanks. I wrote a little about that in an article about the sulphur springs, before I learned all about Laclede Christy.