Green Bricks

This morning I was working a new little spit on the river that I will now name Green's Point.  I found this brick.  The name stamp is nice and readable.  So who is A.P. Green and what became of his empire? A.P. (Allen Percival) was the owner of Green Fire Brick Company in Mexico, Missouri, maker of the world's best fire brick.  He is long dead (b 1875) and things were going well until we find out later that what makes those bricks fire retardant was the asbestos that was added.  Things went south from there and the company went bankrupt after finding it difficult to keep up with all the lawsuits and payments.

             https://brickfrog.wordpress.com/2012/03/11/a-p-green-fire-brick-co-mexico-missouri/
                             http://www.asbestos.com/companies/a-p-green-industries.php

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I don't know much about asbestos.  Is there asbestos in that brick or is it safe to use if you wanted to add it to your patio?  I didn't bring it up.  I think I've seen others like this one along the river but can't be sure.

Green's Point is just south of the railroad bridge. I had to scramble down the hill and there were a few too many shrub branches poking at me that made it less than comfortable. I try to be careful with those pointy shrub branches and wear my sunglasses.  A month or so ago I scratched my cornea on a shrub branch after reaching for an empty water bottle.  Two doctors visits and putting goop in my eye for 2 weeks taught me to be more careful.  But it's clean now so I have no reason to go back.

More brick trash.  Kind of looks cool.

All in an hour's work.

Come home with me my new little friend.