Cascade-1856

CHEWS, DELONG, MAY, DAHLEM

Posted By: Cheryl Locher Moonen (email)
Date: 1/22/2019 at 10:29:44

In 1856, the village now has a population of 450; seven or eight merchants; a big flour mill owned by the Chews; saw mill; brick yard; private school; mechanics, blacksmith. James Hill laid out a new addition to the town in west Cascade. A brewery was established this year in a little log building which was one of the first built in Cascade by Wm. DeLong. Later the brewery was enlarged by Frank May and involved more capital than any other single business. The four story building (now owned by P. M. Dahlem) was of stone 116x24 feet with a wing the same height, 22x30. The malt and fermenting rooms were large and the ice cellar stored 200 tons of ice. Beneath the later was the cooling cellar and still deeper, hewn out of solid rock, was the lager beer vault 88x18x12 feet, twenty feet below the surface. About 2500 barrels of beer were manufactured annually and it was one of the most extensive breweries in the United States.

Cascade Centennial, Howard C. Baldwin