The Alliance Clay Product Company was chartered in 1905, as a company for "the purpose of the manufacturing, selling and dealing in brick, paving blocks, building blocks, sewer pipe, drain tile and all kinds of clay product".[2] The buildings themselves were built beginning in 1906, the year the company was founded by James B. Wilcox.[3][4] By 1907, the single plant was producing 18,000 bricks a day.[5] Plant No. 2 was built in 1914, followed by Plant No.3 in 1924, for a total production capacity of 275,000 bricks a day.[4] Company houses were also built on property, beginning in the 1920s.[4] Gas burners were installed in kilns on site beginning in 1929, following the discovery of a daily supply of 1,500,000 cubic feet of gas on the property.[6]
Production began to decline in the 1960s, due to a rise in other road surfacing materials increasingly replacing paving bricks.[5] Production finally ceased in 1970.[4]
