In frontier days of the South bricks were items that you could not buy......so, people made their own from local clay. Crude molds were made of wood, filled with clay (and sometimes straw, hair, or Spanish moss) and allowed to dry in the sun. As you can see in the photo, the size and quality of individual bricks varied considerably. However, once dried, these locally made brick help up to the test of time. These in the photo are at least 175 years old or more. It took a lot of bricks to made even a small house. Brick mading took a lot time when the Big House and out buildings were coming out of the ground.
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