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Brighton
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Brighton Brickmakers when questioned... Why Bricks in Brighton?.......probably answered... The Glacier made me do it! Brighton
was once covered by a glacial ice field, yes...similar to many other
areas of this country. But if you were to visit the land area adjacent
to our town, you would find a landscape of a immense variety of glacial
remains. Land forms with names like eskers, drumlins, kettles,..a land
reconfigured as the glacier receded to the north...a land of many deposits
of glacial debris. Within the deposited soil of Brighton was found the
basic material for brick manufacture, sand and clay Clay, a granular
soil deposit was carried by the melting glacial rivers and water falls
as the glacier stalled in its retreat at Highland Avenue and a major
river must have flowed from the icy heights, south in the direction
of Monroe Avenue leaving a layer of clay.
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The Glacier depth, (a mile deep over Brighton), would have submerged our neighbor city, Rochester, creating snow and ice depth twelve times the 441' height of the tallest building,( Xerox Tower), in downtown Rochester NY |
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For Information on the Glacier covering Rochester N.Y.go to: Glacier
Story Glacial
Geology by James S. Wishart Pinnacle
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Chronology
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BrickYard Map
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Sand & Lime
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References
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