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The brewery's 300-barrel kettle was kept busy churning out brands, while the left-over grain materials were pressed and sold for cattle feed and grist mills in the rural areas surrounding DuBois. As with many other American breweries, DuBois Brewing moved right along until 1918 and the advent of Prohibition.
Notable buildings include the Hatten & Munch Building (1897), Moore & Schwern Building (c. 1890), Methodist Episcopal Church (1889), First Baptist Church (1891), Shaw Building (1895), and DuBois Public Library (1923). Located in the district and separately listed was the Commercial Hotel. [2]
Philistine pottery beer jug. Beer is one of the oldest human-produced drinks. The written history of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia records the use of beer, and the drink has spread throughout the world; a 3,900-year-old Sumerian poem honouring Ninkasi, the patron goddess of brewing, contains the oldest surviving beer-recipe, describing the production of beer from barley bread, and in China ...
The Lewis and Clark State Historic Site has been established south of the actual winter camp site of the Expedition in Hartford, Illinois.It is located across the Mississippi from the present mouth of the Missouri, as the original camp was; however, the rivers have altered their courses, making the original site inaccessible.
The DuBois Pioneer Home is turning 125 years old. The home, pictured here, was built in 1898 along the banks of the Jupiter Inlet by Harry DuBois as a wedding present to his new bride, Susan.
In July 1897, Du Bois left Philadelphia and took a professorship in history and economics at the historically black Atlanta University in Georgia. [ 44 ] [ 45 ] His first major academic work was his book The Philadelphia Negro (1899), a detailed and comprehensive sociological study of the African-American people of Philadelphia, based on his ...
The W. E. B. Du Bois Boyhood Homesite (or W. E. B. Du Bois Homesite) is a National Historic Landmark in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, commemorating an important location in the life of African American intellectual and civil rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963). The site contains foundational remnants of the home of Du Bois's ...
Jasper, the Dubois County seat, is 10 miles (16 km) to the southwest. Indiana State Road 545 passes through Dubois, leading north to State Road 56 and southeast towards Patoka Lake . According to the U.S. Census Bureau , the Dubois CDP has a total area of 1.60 square miles (4.14 km 2 ), of which 1.57 square miles (4.07 km 2 ) is land and 0.02 ...