Bunker Hill Breweries

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Bunker Hill Breweries
IndustryAlcoholic beverage
Founded1821[1]
FounderJohn Cooper and Thomas Gould[2][3]
Defunct1918
Headquarters
40 Alford Street, Charlestown, Boston, Massachusetts
,
USA
ProductsBeer, Ale
OwnerA. G. Van Nostrand; William Van Nostrand[2]

Bunker Hill Breweries was a brewery founded in 1821 by John Cooper and Thomas Gould in Charlestown (now part of Boston), Massachusetts, USA.[1] The original purchare of the property on Alfred St, was made by Cooper and Gould from Samuel Swan in June, 1821, the price paid being $500. A brewery was established, and in 1824 Mr. Robbins was taken into purtnership, and for two years the enterprise was conducted by the three men named. Then the establishment was purchased by Judge Phinney of Lexington, it was then known as the Canal brewery after the Middlesex canal of those days. In May, 1841, Mr Phinney sold out to John Kent, an English brewer, who was then living in Boston, and Mr Kent ran the brewery until 1871, when it was purchased by W. T. Van Nostrand.[3]

Bunker Hill Breweries' advertisement for its PB (Purest and Best) Ale
Bunker Hill Breweries' ad for Lager from The Boston Evening Transcript of October 24, 1896

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References

  1. 1 2 Schlüter, Hermann (1910), The Brewing Industry and the Brewery Workers' Movement in America, Cincinnati, OH: International Union of United Brewery Workers of America, p. 47
  2. 1 2 "Let's raise a glass to our past", The Boston Herald, Boston, Mass, p. 8, October 20, 1997
  3. 1 2 "COSTLY PLANT Bunker Hill Breweries Splendidly Equipped", The Boston Daily Globe, Boston, Mass, p. 6, October 2, 1896


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