For more than 160 years, the fates of the Draper Mill and its hometown of Hopedale, Massachusetts were intertwined. It’s a familiar, American story–one that often ends with a demolition and fading memories of celebrated past. In 2021, Stone Farm was on hand at the Draper Mill’s demolition, hoping to preserve that past by salvaging as much of its vintage …
The Origins of Building Bricks
Building bricks are as old as man’s desire to stop moving! Of course, this makes perfect sense-after food, what mattered more than shelter? And from this basic instinct to survive, an eleven-thousand-year-old tradition was born. Basic Beginnings and Early Improvements Archaeologists can date back the earliest known bricks to about 9000 BC. These were hand-molded from basic mud and dried …