In 1690, in the family manor house Ernst Johann von Biron was born.

[2][3] The locality at the present site was formed at the end of the 19th century when here was the largest Latvian clay bricks plant.

In 1882, an entrepreneur and the mayor of Riga George Armitstead build first Hoffmann kiln for brick burning in Kalnciems.

The largest brick factories until the First World War belonged to Nesterov, Krišjānis Ķergalvis and Peteris Radziņš.

However, in 1924 joint stock company "Ķieģelis un kūdra" ("Brick and peat") was established, as well as, Kalnciems' school.