Hammel Museum Illinois Brewery Ice House Socorro New Mexico
by Debra Martz
Title
Hammel Museum Illinois Brewery Ice House Socorro New Mexico
Artist
Debra Martz
Medium
Photograph - Digital Art Photography With Layers Of Brush Work
Description
The Hammel Museum is the former home of the Illinois Brewing Company in Socorro, New Mexico. Why Illinois when located in New Mexico? It was constructed in the mid 1880's and was first known as Hammel Brothers and Company, the enterprise of brothers, William and Gustav. Their father immigrated from Bavaria to Illinois where he started the original brewery in Lebanon, Illinois, thus the name change in 1887 for their father. They produced beer and ale until Prohibition in 1919. It was then converted to a soft drink bottling plant and an ice house, in which the soft drink operation continued until 1950 and the ice house closed in 1968. In 1925 it became the state's first bottler of Pepsi Cola. Eventually Illinois Brewing Company bottled other soft drinks: 7-Up, Nesbitt Orange and Grapette. In addition to the brewing company artifacts, the collections of the museum focus on early Socorro history. Being that it is only open the first Saturday of each month, we did not have the opportunity of exploring the museum.
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"New Mexico"
"Digital Art Photography"
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January 5th, 2021
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