In 1910 the city's 4 distilleries produced products valued at only $14,341. The census gives no figures for the production of distilled liquor in Cleveland between 1870-1900. That number grew to 5 establishments producing products valued at $131,273 in 1860, but thereafter the industry declined as a factor in the city's economic life. In 1840 2 distilleries produced 80,000 gallons of liquor, according to U.S. The distilling industry, meanwhile, never attained the importance of brewing in Cleveland. The city's malt liquor output, valued at $1,249,502 in 1880, increased more than fourfold by 1910, to $5,124,478, and helped boost Ohio to third place, behind Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. ![]() Thereafter, the directories trace the swift and sustained growth of the industry prior to Prohibition in 1920: in 1860, there were 11 breweries in 1870, 17 in 1880, 23 in 1890, 19 in 1900, 23 and in 1910, 26. In 1845-46, 3 breweries employing 13 persons produced 177,000 gallons of beer and ale with an estimated value of $17,000. There were 2 breweries in Cleveland when the first city directory was published in 1837-38. Sargent noted at a meeting of the EARLY SETTLERS ASSN. Willey opened a brewery on Walworth Run, so that "the introduction among us of this wicked beverage cannot be laid at the door of the immigrant Teuton," John H. During the same period, Baptist clergyman Elijah F. By 1831 a distillery had been built on the narrow strip of land sheared off from the FLATS by the old river bed and the new channel of the Cuyahoga River, giving that district the name WHISKEY ISLAND. Their output was "two quarts of raw spirits a day," according to historian William Ganson Rose, which was used "in the household for medicinal purposes, as coin in commerce and trade, and as a pacifying influence over uneasy Indians." JOSIAH BARBER, who with his brother-in-law, RICHARD LORD, gave the village of Brooklyn (later the west side) its first economic boom, is said to have established that area's first industry, a distillery. In 1800 David and Gilman Bryant are said to have operated a secondhand distillery, brought from Virginia, on the banks of the CUYAHOGA RIVER at the foot of Superior St. ![]() Cleveland's distilling industry dates almost to the city's founding.
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