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The boundary brewery: Kamm & Schellinger of Mishawaka

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1850/1853–1951 · MISHAWAKA (POINTER — CROSS-REFERENCE, NEVER RETOLD)

Pointer only, as the row directs. Kamm & Schellinger Brewing Company, Mishawaka: established by John Wagner on West 2nd Street — 1850 in the company's historical sketch, 1853 in the Tavern Trove chronology, both printed; purchased 1870 by Adolph Kamm (with Clemens Dick, as Dick & Kamm); Nicholas Schellinger, Kamm's brother-in-law, took Dick's interest in 1880 and the firm became Kamm & Schellinger; incorporated 1883 with capital of $65,000, Kamm president, Schellinger treasurer, Rudolph Kamm brewmaster; output about 30,000 barrels, its “Pilsner” and bottled “export” beers known across northern Indiana and Michigan; ceased operations 1951. Its three riverfront buildings stand in Mishawaka. The whole telling belongs to the Mishawaka build; here it is a cross-reference, and Osceola's relation to it is only that it is the nearest brewery ground the town never had.

Sources: Kamm and Schellinger Brewery historical sketch (Historic Structures, from the company's county-history account); Tavern Trove, Kamm & Schellinger chronology (1853 founding line; 1951 closed).

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Source: The boundary brewery: Kamm & Schellinger of Mishawaka, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/osceola/wineries-distilleries/boundary-brewery-at-pointer-size-kamm-and-schellinger-of/