Business partners Henry Lembeck and John F Betz founded
one of the most famous, best-equipped, and financially
successful breweries on the East Coast of the United States,
right here in Jersey City. By 1889, it manufactured fifty
thousand barrels of ale and port and 250,000 barrels of beer
per year in a state of the art facility valued at a million dollars
and worth three million dollars in total assets. To learn more
about the city click on it's name. Not many bottles remain,
today from this once thriving brewery.
one of the most famous, best-equipped, and financially
successful breweries on the East Coast of the United States,
right here in Jersey City. By 1889, it manufactured fifty
thousand barrels of ale and port and 250,000 barrels of beer
per year in a state of the art facility valued at a million dollars
and worth three million dollars in total assets. To learn more
about the city click on it's name. Not many bottles remain,
today from this once thriving brewery.
Lembeck mansion
H. Lembeck
Old Bottles
Old Bottles
Jersey City Brewery
Glass and pottery fragments
possible 1700 to1800s Jersey
City area
possible 1700 to1800s Jersey
City area
| Snake oil Cure-all es |
| Most of these Medicine bottles where found in a 1840 home in the now torn down section of Jersey City called Dogpatch. These bottles dated to at least mid to late 1800's and were probably used to make their own medicine and or perfume |
| This is the base of an old wine bottle found near a old Civil War Redoubt in Virginia |
| Jersey City Beer |
| Various medicine bottles early to late 1800s |
Chemest tubes late 1800's