Houston County. The loam everywhere is suitable for making brick, which are uniformly red. The following establishments were seen: The Lutheran Society, at Spring Grove, manufacture on the spot a fine red brick from the loam taken out for foundations and basement of their large new church edifice. (The Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota, The Fifth Annual Report, For The Year 1876, N. H. Winchell, The Pioneer Press Company, St. Paul, 1877, Page 49)
The Lutheran society, at Spring Grove, manufactured on the spot a fine red brick from the loam taken out to make room for the foundations and basement of their church edifice. (The Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota, Volume I, 1872-1882, N. H. Winchell and Warren Upham, Johnson, Smith & Harrison, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1884, Page 234)
There were no brick yards in operation in the county (Houston) in 1912, but old plants were located in former years at nearly every town in the county, - Money Creek, Spring Grove, La Crescent, Houston, and at other localities. Common red brick can be made from the loess at nearly any locality in the county. (Clays and Shales of Minnesota, Frank F. Grout and E. K. Soper, The University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1914, Page 112)