Foggy Bottom was once a community of Ireland, Germany, and African American laborers employed at the nearby brewery, glass plants, and city gas works.
Local industry consists primarily of small farms devoted to hops, wheat and barley which are sold to nearby breweries.
The Lemp Brewery relocated from downtown to the northern edge of the Marine Villa neighborhood in the 1860s, and the neighborhood saw an influx of German immigrants who came to the neighborhood to work at several of the nearby breweries, including Lemp, Anheuser-Busch, and the Cherokee Brewery.
At night, the scene gets into its swing as the residents head off to the Kulturbrauerei, a nearby former brewery which has been turned into bars and dance clubs.
Galleries in the Barmsteine were used by the nearby brewery, Hofbräu Kaltenhausen, to store beer.
Foggy Bottom was once a community of white and black laborers employed at the nearby breweries, glass plants, and city gas works.
When first opened, there was no running water, but there was of course the nearby brewery, which was used to treat the patients.
The amusement park featured Heim beer piped in directly from the nearby brewery.
St. Paul's Avenue is the picturesque spine of Stapleton, flanked by exuberant Victorian homes built in the 1800's by the managers of several nearby breweries and some of the borough's first commuters to Manhattan.
Daly, a recovering alcoholic who initially said he would not play in the Greater Milwaukee because he would not be able to stand the smell of the nearby breweries, changed his mind after a strong showing in the P.G.A. Championship.