Thousands of bricks are being put to the fire in Colonial Williamsburg this week, as an annual November tradition heats up the old-fashioned way. Each November, typically the week before Thanksgiving, ...

WILLIAMSBURG — With the new year, masons at Colonial Williamsburg stand ready to use traditional 18th-century techniques to lay needed bricks recently created by a brick kiln operation on the edge of ...

In a special spring firing, the Colonial Williamsburg brickyard crew set up about 9,000 salmon bricks to bake. The under-baked and porous bricks were fired to strengthen them so they can better endure ...