Date |
Significant Event |
| 1850 |
Sayre & Fisher Brick Company Founders' Co-Partnership of James R. Sayre of Newark, N.J., an entrepreneur engaged in the lime, cement, and building supply businesses provided the venture capital & Captain Peter Fisher of Fishkill, N.Y., owner and operator of a sailing vessel that freighted brick and other products in and around New York Harbor, provided practical experience and operating technology. |
| 1850 – 1894 |
Clay dug by hand from open pits and loaded into one-horse dump carts and taken to tempering pits |
| 1851 – 1912 |
Sayre & Fisher acquire hundreds of acres of available clay lands, extending to East Brunswick |
| 1876 |
Separated from Township of South Amboy and named Sayreville
|
| 1876 – 1919 |
Sayreville functions as a Township |
| 1878 |
8 Brickyards along the Raritan River producing 54,000,000 bricks annually |
| 1887 |
Incorporated as Sayre & Fisher Company |
| 1895 |
Clay transported by narrow gauge tracks and cars and both pulled by mules to take the clay from the pits to Brickyard |
| 1896 |
Company purchases locomotives for transport of clay from pits to Brickyard |
| 1898 |
Sayre & Fisher builds central power station, the Sayreville Electric Light & Power Company; prior to 1898, each brickyard was equipped with its own steam power plant. |
| 1903 |
First Electricity on Main Street provided by Sayreville Electric Light & Power Company; Also served the local traction company for their trolley lines, the Edwin Furman Brickyard, the Evans Engineering Company, Shell Loading Plant and supplied power and light to the adjacent Borough of South
River. |
| 1905 |
Sayre & Fisher acquires land and assets of William Fisher’s clay pits of over 300 acres |
| 1905 |
Sayre & Fisher have 1,500 +/- acres of clay lands ; 13 separate yards |
| 1906 |
Co-Founder Captain Fisher steps down as General Manager of the Company; son Edwin Fisher succeeds as General Manager |
| 1908 |
President of Sayre & Fisher Company and Founder, James Sayre dies; Edwin A. Fisher succeeds as President |
| 1912 |
Sayre & Fisher organizes Sayreville Towing Company by purchasing an 85 foot, 600 horse power steel tug for delivery of a substantial percentage of the brick deliveries |
