Does the name make you think there are breweries there? I read a Columbus blog that said something about the name making you believe there were lots of breweries...in The Brewery District.
Where are there lots of breweries anywhere in the US? Now or in our life time... I grew up in the Milwaukee area and there were not lots of breweries there back then...(and I am NOT going to say when that was.) I believe the history of the old German breweries around the country may have been very similiar... their heyday or is it hay day....? The breweries in Columbus were built and flourished prior to World War I. The anti German sentiments in the US at the time of that war hurt the breweries and then Prohibition put many out of business.
I'm not talking "micro breweries" ...or "brew pubs" The Brewery District is named after the breweries of the 1800s in Columbus. The German settlers who lived in what we now call German Village worked in the breweries that were west of High Street. The Hoster family started the first brewery in Columbus, The City Brewery.
According to the 1993 Brewery District Plan " In 1877, five breweries operated in the district: C. Born and Company; L. Hoster and Sons; Schlee Bavarian Brewery; Schlegel and Company; and Stoker and Sons." Jumping ahead to the 1890's , the report says "The Gay Nineties brought further consolidation, yet more prosperity." then there were only three Columbus breweries again but "Excess capacity and market deterioration forced the three breweries to consolidate into the Columbus Brewing Company by 1904." World War I, and Prohibition put the Columbus breweries totally out of business I believe or seriously changed the remaining company. That left some empty breweries in the area. There were other warehouses and industrial building in the area that is now The Brewery District.
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