Museum and Visitor Center
of the Bastrop County Historical Society

"Who/What Is This?"

We need your help! Please contact the Bastrop County Historical Society if you can identify anyone in these two photographs. Please refer to the I.D. number. Thank You.

Who is this?
ID# 007.08.622
From the Harry and
Maud Erhard collection

Who are they?
View an enlarged picture
ID# 001
City Garage, NW corner of the intersection
of Water and Spring Streets.

What is this?
We know - do you?

Answer: the footed Champion Clay Furnace could easily be moved from room to room. Hot coals were in the bottom of the pot and heat was naturally vented into the room or immediate area through the large holes. The furnace was made at R. L. Williams' McDade Pottery. Williams patented this furnace in 1911, and in 1935 he shipped approximately 20,000 furnaces. The McDade Pottery closed in 1942.