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When John Jay planned his Westchester farm in the 1790s, he used clay found on his property to make bricks for his home and various farm buildings. Archeological testing identified the manufacturing site where the bricks were formed, dried, stacked, and baked in kilns. The testing also located the site of a temporary Native American camp that existed long before European settlers arrived. Thousands of bricks made in the southern end of this field between 1787 and 1801 were used to build John Jay’s residence and farm buildings.
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