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Monday Mystery 113015: A Historic Bottle of Porter
What does this bottle of porter have to do with Mehrhof Pond, one of the great spots to see wintering waterfowl and raptors in North Jersey?
The eagle below was photographed by Mehrhof Pond last winter.
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A not unrelated answer: there was a brewery operating by 1876 at what is now 40 Washington Ave, near Riverside Ave, which was the entrance to the brickyard next to the Mehrhofs, Manhattan Land and Brick Co . . . I don’t know if the brewery was Ehlers, Beckers or another.
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Between the late 1800’s and early 1900’s Little Ferry contained as many as eight brickyards. The clay for the brickyards came from pits in the Meadowlands. Mehrhof Pond was one of those pits. So, Little Ferry’s Brix City porter is related to the Mehrhof Pond eagle by history and geography.
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A not unrelated answer: there was a brewery operating by 1876 at what is now 40 Washington Ave, near Riverside Ave, which was the entrance to the brickyard next to the Mehrhofs, Manhattan Land and Brick Co . . . I don’t know if the brewery was Ehlers, Beckers or another.
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Between the late 1800’s and early 1900’s Little Ferry contained as many as eight brickyards. The clay for the brickyards came from pits in the Meadowlands. Mehrhof Pond was one of those pits. So, Little Ferry’s Brix City porter is related to the Mehrhof Pond eagle by history and geography.