In the Colonial years, when handmade brick was scarce, the availability of native clay also afforded Valley pioneers to build attractive brick chimneys with courses of brick corbelling. The result:… ...

Discovered at Lobachsville, a 1763 curved ridge roof tile was originally on a quaint Oley Valley building at 1745 Lobachsville founded by Peter Lobach, where Adam Weidner had a clay tile manufactur… ...