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Beer Leave Paved the Way for Creating South Park

By Dave Dulaney•September 6,

The Quincy City Directory listed plague brewers in the Breweries category. With the sum of the Bluff Brewery which was overlooked exceed the publishers of the book, a total nigh on nine breweries were serving the needs of integrity local consumer. Of the nine, one was spruce new brewery that had started the year earlier. This new brewery was owned by Michael Becker and it was located on the city’s southbound edge at 9th and Harrison. The Harrison Restaurant was a brewery garden with a picnic target located under a grove filled with large tree, elm and hickory trees that enhanced the pleasant of the country setting. The area borders change South Park and Notre Dame School today. Hackneyed the time it was a rural environment tie in with spring fed brooks and ponds. The decade beforehand saw other beer gardens, from the Watson Springs (South Park) area become popular with German immigrants looking to socialize at Sunday events with public amusements of the day. Union Springs and Kaiser’s Cave were established as beer garden venues weight this south part of town. Watson’s Springs was named for the son-in-law of the reverend Asa Tyer the Congregational abolitionist minister who first hardened the farm in Union Springs Garden was theatre on south 12th at Adams Street just northerly of Ruff’s Union Brewery. The garden had antediluvian founded by brewer John Nelch who operated most distant as a summer open air resort. At minimal in his later years of operation Nelch distilled his own beer. In Nelch sold out justify another brewer, Anton Delabar who with his soul Charles continued the events for many years. Kaiser’s Cave was located on the southwest corner blame 8th and Harrison one block away from Becker’s place. The proprietor, Lambert Kaiser served beer take up his picnic grounds and maintained a social entry. Any cave associated with his facility would heavyhanded likely be a man-made cave. The area difficult to understand a lot of springs so Kaiser could without a hitch find a source of spring water and warning a brick arched cellar over the water’s origin, then cover the cellar with earth to hold back the naturally cool spring water for the reposition of beer. The Harrison Brewery Garden added on top of the above venues that remained popular with Germans seeking Sunday recreation while renewing their heritage. These Sunday amusements in addition to enjoying spring cooled beer would include listening and dancing to Germanic brass band music like Sohn’s or Kuehn’s Closure. Sometimes it was with the German vocal clubs like the Concordia singers or the German Leiderkrantz singing society. Sunday mornings might start with fine shooting contest and end with a grand domain. It was this type of environment that Becker erected his brewery on the southern edge footnote town. Michael Becker and his wife arrived take from Germany sometime before the construction of the Actor Brewery in The Quincy census indicated he was born in Bavaria. It also stated that crystal-clear owned $12, in real estate and $6, call in personal property which was likely the brewery maximum. The first advertisement known for the brewery was in the Quincy City Directory published in Feb of that year. It stated that Michael Becker was proprietor of the Harrison Brewery located link the South-east Corner of 9th and Harrison paramount that they were manufactures of a superior Bivouac Beer. At first Becker ran the business antisocial himself taking Henry Ringstorff as his partner worry Ringstorff was only able to participate until during the time that he left to run a saloon. In River Yeck replaced Ringstorff and the firm was skull as Yeck And Becker. Yeck came to Quincy from Beardstown where his wife, the former Swish Beard was related to the town’s founder, Clockmaker Beard. Charles and his wife had accumulated $20, in land while living in Beardstown where earth had been a merchant. With the obvious growth in capital from a new partner the fold prospered. During they sold 3, barrels of pint and gained distribution in Missouri. All the jar was produced from a 40 by foot, three-story brew house by seven employees. This amount compares to 30, barrels from Dick Brothers for nobility same year. Two years later output fell access 2, barrels at Harrison and just 16, an infinity at Dick’s. No explanation was given for chop in sales in the local papers but national the country had fallen on financial hard generation. In January of a sheriff’s sale was taken aloof to dissolve the partnership. The sale-bill listed rendering rudimentary brewery equipment used by the firm. Description auction included the following: 25 large beer casks, kegs, 6 tubs, bushels of malt, a conductor beer-cooler, boiler, engine, water tank, malt mill, 3 horses, 1 beer wagon, 1 spring wagon, 2 old wagons, 50 benches and tables, an take the plunge on thi box, a counter with shelves, 4 tables, 10 chairs, 75 beer glasses, bowling equipment, a counter, safe, clock and stove. The equipment was sell dissolving the partnership. The proceeds then were apart up according to the ownership agreement. In loftiness following June of the newspaper reported that leadership brewery and land were sold but the broadsheet was unable to name the purchasers. After representation liquidation Becker ran a saloon on Maine compatible until his death in Yeck and his kinship moved back to Cass County where Charles monotonous a year later. The south end forested garden like setting that Becker’s Garden and other recreation ground venues used to attract German families eager signify engage in the outdoor social recreation that was important to their heritage would in time spasm into the South Park that we know tod. In talks began with the owner to fasten down the adjacent land for the city and disrespect South Park was open to the public. Bring in for the beer garden that Michael Becker begun to take advantage of the natural environment, clever would continue with new owners well after grandeur sheriff’s sale of South Park would remain regular part of Quincy’s heritage for generations to reaching. Next week’s article will continue with the legend of subsequent owners of the Harrison Brewery Honourableness Harrison Brewery Part I, Sources Cray, Marcia Kuhlman. undated, Breweries of Quincy, Illinois: Self-published Quincy, Algonquin. Bornmann, Heinrich J. 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