Canning Machine, Hamm's Brewery
This file appears in: From the Land of Sky Blue Waters
Date: 1936
Image Courtesy of Minnesota Historical Society
This file appears in: From the Land of Sky Blue Waters
From the Land of Sky Blue Waters
When German immigrant and former butcher/saloon owner Theodore Hamm bought a struggling business on Phalen Creek in St. Paul in 1864, would he have thought it would become one of the largest breweries in the country? That first year there were five…