Sayreville/Sayre & Fisher Brick Company 1850 - 2007 Timeline

Date	Significant Event
1913	Annual output of 178,000,000 bricks
1918	Morgan Munitions Plant Explosion. For close to 20 hours on October 4 and 5, explosion after explosion impacted Morgan and South Amboy when the T.A. Gillespie & Sons shell-loading plant blew up in one of New Jersey's worst disasters resulting in 87 fatalities and several million dollars worth of damages. The blast was later blamed on the Army policy of storing huge amounts of powder.
1920	Average wage of Sayre & Fisher workman: $4 / day
1920	Sayreville becomes a Borough
1926	Sayreville Electric Light & Power Company provides electricity to homes
1926	Chicago utility investors buy Sayre & Fisher Company and separate the electric and brick divisions; the electric division becomes part of Eastern New Jersey Power and later known as Jersey Central Power & Light; brick division becomes Sayre & Fisher Brick Company; stock issued
1927	Captain Peter Fisher's grandson and Edwin Fisher's son, Douglas J. Fisher named President.
1943	Sayre & Fisher Brick Company unable to meet interest obligations and forced into bankruptcy; reorganized as Sayre & Fisher Company, Inc.
1945	Employees of Company are members of the United Brick and Clay Workers of America, A.F. of L District No. 12, Local Union 963.
1947	Borough adopts its first resolution requiring the issuance of building permits
1950	100th Anniversary of Company, over 6,250,000,000 bricks manufactured, enough to build over 400,000 modern homes
Late 1950s - 1970	Building Materials across country transition from Brick to Steel and Concrete due to cost savings
c.1970	Sayre & Fisher Brick Company ceases operations; most of brick company buildings demolished; Company reorganizes as a real estate and land development corporation with corporate headquarters relocated to St. Louis Missouri.
1990	Louis Berger and Associates, Inc. (LBA) conducts Phase II and Phase III investigations at the S & F brickworks.
2002	Pan-American Consultants, Inc. (PCI) conducts a Phase II cultural resource investigation of 12 acres in the eastern portion the S & F Brick Company.
2005 - 2007	Neptune Regional Transmission System purchases a parcel of land formerly of the Sayre & Fisher Brick Company from the Borough of Sayreville Economic Redevelopment Agency (SERA). In Fall 2005, construction commenced on the 65 mile undersea electric transmission cable project with the erection of a converter station in Sayreville, New Jersey and a converter station in Town of North Hempstead, Long Island. Operations commenced in Summer 2007.