Jessica,

Check the city directories.  You can construct your own chronology, and you
can find period advertisements from the companies in question.  Directories
were really helpful for the National Brewery of New Orleans (later
Falstaff).  Here are two other sources that may not specifically reference
the companies (I don't remember them) but give great insight, especially the
Ehret volume (great figures and period descriptions of companies and the
brewing process).


Downard, William L.
1980    Dictionary of the History of the American Brewing and Distilling
Industries.  Greenwood Press, Westport, CT.

Ehret, George
1909    American Beer: Glimpses of Its History and Descriptions of Its
Manufacture.  United States Brewers Association, New York, NY.


Jason A. Emery

Louisiana Division of Archaeology
P.O. Box 44247
Baton Rouge, LA 70804
(225) 342-8170


 -----Original Message-----
From:   Allen Vegotsky [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent:   Friday, July 12, 2002 6:45 PM
To:     [log in to unmask]
Subject:        Re: Brewing Company Info

Jessica,

Another source of information on breweries is Dale Van Wheren's "American
Breweries II," published by the Eastern Coast Breweriana Assoc. in 1995.  He
lists both breweries you inquired about and both were in business at the
turn of the century as you suspected.  According to this reference, the
Terra Haute Brewing Company was located at 901/935 Poplar Street and 9th
Street in Terra Haute from 1889 to 1918.  There was a national law of
prohibition from 1919 - 1933.  The Terra Haute Brewing Co. reappeared at 440
South 9th Street in 1934 and continued there until 1957.  The Eagle Brewery
functioned under John Ebner, Proprietor, from 1859 to 1875, and was located
on Indianapolis Ave.  From 1875 to 1918, the Proprietors were Eugene Hack
and Anton Simon.

Allen Vegotsky
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jessica Levon-White <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: Friday, July 12, 2002 3:20 PM
Subject: Brewing Company Info


>Hello all!
>
>I have a question for everyone.  Does anybody have any information (or know
where I can get information) on the Terra Haute Brewing Company (Terra
Haute, Indiana) and the Eagle Brewery in Vincennes, Indiana.  I have done a
search on the net for both, and haven't found anything.  We have found a
complete Terra Haute beer bottle (the maker's mark on its base dates it to
1911, according to Toulouse), and only fragments of the Vincennes beer
bottle.  I *think* they were both in business around the turn of the
century.
>
>Thanks in advance!
>
>Jessica Levon-White
>Historical Archaeologist
>Glenn A. Black Lab of Archaeology
>Office of Cultural Resource Management
>Bloomington, Indiana
>
>
>
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