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Description
Wooden crate used to transport beer from Fredericksburg Brewery. As Leonard McKay wrote for the web blog, San Jose Inside: "In 1869, a German tavern keeper, Gottfried Frederick Krahenberg, started the Fredericksburg Brewery on the corner of The Alameda and Cinnabar Street. This brewery prospered and a huge six-story building was added that featured towers and turrets like a Germanic castle. The Fredericksburg Brewery employed mostly immigrants from the large German population then living in San Jose. (Members of this community established a German Catholic Church, Lutheran Church, Methodist Church and a German language newspaper, and owned most of the meat markets and sausage shops.)" "A major fire broke out at the Fredericksburg Brewery in 1902 and the great, six-story turreted tower of the malt house crashed into Cinnabar Street. The brewery was rebuilt by the time of the 1906 earthquake and survived with only minor damage."
Type
Image
Identifier
29EC8707-A120-47FE-9E75-354440049710 2007-13-1
Subject
Brewing industry Beer industry--California--San Jose Germans--California
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