1880-1914 VINTAGE Reymann Brewing Co Wheeling West Virginia Beer Bottle 9 1/2\"
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1880-1914 VINTAGE Reymann Brewing Co Wheeling West Virginia Beer Bottle 9 1/2\" :
$18.99
Here is a piece of history from Wheeling West Virginia. This bottle is in awesomecondition and has a formed top, no seam for about twoinches and verynoticeable that it was formed due to the raised area on the neck. This is prior to 1900. Below is a little history on this gem for the Man Cave or She Shack. Get it before it is gone and preserve a little brewing history.
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Reymann Brewery,part of theWheeling, West Virginia’srich German heritage that date to the 19th century, was one of the largest breweries in the state.Wheeling was known as an early prominently German community in the northern panhandle of the Mountain State and boasted of its unofficial nickname, theBeer Belly, with pride as it was a city filled with over 130 taverns and saloons.
HISTORYAnton Reymann was born in Gaubickelheim, Germany in 1837, and immigrated to Wheeling, West Virginia in 1853 with his father, George Reymann, who was a school teacher.15George, along with Peter Paul Beck, founded possibly the first brewery in Wheeling, the Franklin Brewing Company,3dating to 1849.14Anton enrolled in the local school district until itto closed because of a smallpox outbreak. Only 17 years of age, Reymann began working for the company his father co-founded and served as an apprentice for four years. The brewery grew in size andrelocated to 15th Street between Market and Main.3
In 1862, Anton married Beck’s daughter, Thusnelda Beck.5
His father later retired from the brewery,5and in 1863, Beckquit because of health complications and named Anton manager of the brewery.3
After operating the brewery on 15th Street for several years, Reymann constructed a larger, more modern facility along the north bank of Wheeling Creek on the site of the tavern in 1865.3Located in the Manchester neighborhood,12the brewery became the largest in the state, with its caverns holding between 7,000 and 8,000 barrels of beer.34The main building had a width of 360 feet andbuiltof brick with a stone foundation. Natural springs provided fresh water and coal from a nearby mine was the source of electricity. In 1881, the Reymann brewery offered stock for the first time, and by 1904, the brewery produced over 150,000 barrels per year.5
By Wheeling IllustratedReymann later became known as a stockholder in the Wheeling and Elm Grove Railroad and president of the Wheeling Park company.13At the time that Reymann purchased the railroad, the narrow-gauge horse-drawn railway was in dire condition, and he modernized it with steam engines and electrified the network.5He then purchased the park and turned it into a popular amusement and recreation area for the region. He was also president of the State Fair association and co-founder and vice president of the German Fire Insurance Company, and later became involved in the founding of the German Bank, which became known as WesBanco.
Reymann was also responsible for supporting local charities, and was mostly responsible for the creation of Altenheim, later known as the “Home for Aged and Friendless Women.”5The residence was mostly populated with immigrant women who came to work in the United States as domestic servants, working in the homes of the wealthy and had nowhere to live in their later years. In 1891, Reymann purchased the 40-room1878 Mt. Belleview Hotel, which was a summer residence for wealthy Wheeling citizens, and renovated the facility into a residence for aged women. He offered to bear all the expenses of the home for a year.
West Virginia became a dry state in July 1914 under Yost’s Law, and Reymann’s brewery closed.12After its closure, the Reymann Packing Company was formed by Paul O. Reymann, son of Anton Reymannandoperated with success until it was purchased by Wilson Packing Company of Chicago.3The packing company was later abandoned, and a considerable part of the brewery later became home to the Central Beverage Agency.
Anton died in 1924.5In his will, Reymann placed $25,000 into a trust, which was to be paid to Altenheim until the institution became self-sustaining.
During World War II, the caves and cellars that extended from the brewery was once considered the site of an air raid shelter for Wheeling.3Henry C. Miller, of the Wheeling Realty Company, who was also in charge of shelters for the local Civilian Defense Corps, proposed the idea because bombers from the Atlantic coast could reach Wheeling in trying to avoid heavily fortified and defended coastal cities and attempt to bomb inland industrialized regions.
On November 30, 2008, Anton Reymann was inducted posthumously into the Wheeling Hall of Fame for his contributions to Wheeling philanthropy.5
1880-1914 VINTAGE Reymann Brewing Co Wheeling West Virginia Beer Bottle 9 1/2\" :
$18.99