A. R. COX'S BREWERY. -This extensive establishment fronts on Main Street,
near Markley, close to Main Street Station on the Philadelphia and Reading
Railroad, connecting with the Stony Creek road. It is owned and operated by
A. R. Cox, by whom it was built and has been operated for nearly forty
years. Away back in 1830, Morgan James ran a small brewery in a frame house
on this site, in partnership with Abraham Eschbach, brewing, perhaps, about
half a dozen barrels of beer a week. Morgan James drew out of the firm,
when A. R. Cox, who then lived in old John Freedley's house, joined
Eschbach in the business on the same small scale.
The property of John Freedley being offered for sale, Mr. George Cole, Mr.
Cox's father-in-law, induced Mr. Cox to purchase the property and furnished
the money. The buildings and improvements cost twelve thousand dollars, and
improvements were made in every department of the premises. Levi Haas,
Justus Leaver and Frederick Gilbert built the large cedar vats, each
holding two hundred gallons, which are standing today, and are in good
condition. The work and the men who performed it are all today in a good
state of preservation, and we may here say that several of the men who
worked at the old frame brewery forty years ago are working for A. R. Cox now.
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There are nine hands employed steadily all the year round; the production
is about three thousand barrels a year of ale and porter and the property
is to-day worth over one hundred thousand dollars.
Not familiar with this one though i have seen a few of these bottles around. Not hard to find. Found a bit of info. I searched.
