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I have found fired bricks in a 20th c. wall in the Bronx, NY and have seen
them in Brooklyn also, apparently in kitchens but not associated with a
stove apparently. Maybe a way of retaining heat in a wall. The walls at the
Valentine House, late 18th century, in the Bronx has some of it's walls
exposed and have that sort of clay fill and daub with straw in them though
not bricks per say. looking almost Elizabethan. In Riverhead, NY, the
Suffolk History Museum has the "waffle" shoes marsh walkers used to use to
collect the marsh grass, reportedly "spartina patens" was used in insulating
walls in New York City and elswhere until fire codes were enacted. A fire
company was very early formed in New Amsterdam, headed by a Brit under Dutch
rule according to the records.
"The following objectionable words were found in your message: flocking"
George Myers
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