Lawrenceville Brick

Lawrenceville Brick was founded in 1946 to supply the booming housing industry that emerged after World War II. The company has ties with a long list of prominent local citizens and can even boast of having both a former governor of Virginia and the founder of a major department store chain as long-term members of the Board of Directors.

The original idea for the company was to build a periodic kiln plan in the town of Lawrenceville, VA near the "creek" clay to be used in the process. John B. Rawlings, one of the original founders, talked to John Isenhour, Sr., about the plans and he recommended that they build a "new style" instead. Thus the plant, utilizing the first tunnel kiln in Virginia, was built in 1946. . .