Hammel Museum Socorro New Mexico
by Debra Martz
Title
Hammel Museum Socorro New Mexico
Artist
Debra Martz
Medium
Photograph - Photography
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. 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 ice house continued until 1950. In addition to the brewing company, 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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January 4th, 2021
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Randy Rosenberger
Your excellence in your submission of this work is worthy of special recognition, and I am seeing to it, that this happens in the WFS group. I am so happy to have you as an active member of our family of friends and fine artists, who support one another by comments, likes, faves, sharing, etc. Thanks for all your efforts to make our group so special by having a fine artist like yourself among many other fine artists that make our group so special.
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