Their real estate comprises a tract of about twenty-seven acres, on which they have a brick yard of over twenty years’ establishment, where they manufacture from two hundred and fifty thousand a year. The proprietors are G. & G. Burkhardt. (History of Wabasha County, Together with Biographical Matter, Statistics, Etc., H. H. Hill & Company, Publishers, Chicago, 1884, Page 1117)
Light red brick are made at Read's Landing and at Wabasha. (A Report on the Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota, 1882-1885, The Geology of Minnesota, Volume II, N. H. Winchell and Warren Upham, Pioneer Press Company, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1888, Page 19)