Giving due credit to the man of grass, allow me to introduce to my readers of The Republican my old friend Isaac B. Taylor of Dodge county, who has just completed the first kiln of brick ever burned in Dodge county, and placed on my table a couple of specimens. They look so much like the brick of my old Buckeye home, that I know they must be superior. Several masons of experience have pronounced them the best seen this side of Milwaukee. As Mr. Taylor has an abundance of clay and timber right on the railroad, I shall expect him to establish an extensive trade, and furnish the country with a good quality at reasonable rates. (The Winona Daily Republican, Friday, August 28, 1868, Page 2)
Dodge County. Three miles west of Dodge Center, Mr. Taylor made 222,000 brick last year. They are from the same clay. In a brick building which had been standing barely a year, quite a number of these brick had begun to crumble. (The Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota, The Fourth Annual Report, For The Year 1875, N. H. Winchell & M. W. Harrington, The Pioneer-Press Company, St. Paul, 1876, Page 105)
Brick are made from the surface loam at Dodge Center, and three miles east of Dodge Center. (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 375)