Wow, Lisa, that is great info. Does anyone know if Ballantine employee records still exits for the time they were in Newark? Thanks Dave --- On Fri, 6/19/09, LadyMist1@aol.com <LadyMist1@aol.com> wrote: > From: LadyMist1@aol.com <LadyMist1@aol.com> > Subject: Re: [NJHUDSON] Breweries in Newark 1885-1910? > To: njhudson@rootsweb.com > Date: Friday, June 19, 2009, 11:11 AM > Hello, > > > According to 'The Making of America Series" for "Newark, > New Jersey" by > Jean Rae-Turner and Richard T. Koles, they write > > "General John N. Cumming started a brewery at High and > Orange Streets about > 1799. It's name changed to Morton's in 1840, when it was > purchased by Peter > Ballantine, a Scot who built a new plant near the Passaic > River on Rector > St. > > His first German competitor to move in was John N. Schalk, > who arrived in > 1849 and established a brewery at Napoleon St. and Hamburg > Pl. His sons later > moved the brewery to Bowery and Ferry Sts. > > The Ballantine brewery expanded and moved Down Neck next to > the Morris > Canal and became the largest brewery in the nation. It > closed in 1969. > > Gottfried Krueger and Christian Feigenspan both started as > apprentices with > Laible and Adam. They later opened their own breweries and > were very > successful. In all of Newark, there were some 26 breweries > in 1879 to serve the > German community of some 35,000 persons. Joseph Hensler, > another brewer built > both his house and brewery close to Hensler St., which was > named after him. > > Anhueser-Busch Company, which moved to Routes 1 & 9, > opposite the Newark > International Airport after WWII, is the only brewery left > in Newark." > > > > > That might be more than you wanted to know about the > breweries, and maybe > not enough, but its my 2 cents worth. Hope it helps in some > small way. > > Lisa > > > ************** > Download the AOL Classifieds Toolbar for local deals at > your fingertips. > (http://toolbar.aol.com/aolclassifieds/download.html?ncid=emlcntusdown00000004) > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NJHUDSON-request@rootsweb.com > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the > subject and the body of the message >