Eighteenth Century Maryland Beer

Posted on by June 30, 2018

I was looking for some family members using the American Antiquarian Society’s America’s Historical Newspapers database, and found this advertisement for Rock Run Beer. Lower Ferry was located between Havre de Grace and Perryville, Maryland. Rock Run beer was likely made at an area named Rock Run, approximately six miles from Havre de Grace up the Susquehanna River and Tidewater Canal. Today, you can visit Rock Run, a Lock house, the Stump Mill (1794), the Carter-Archer House (1804) and the site of where the longest covered bridge in Maryland stood from 1815 to 1857.

The Maryland Journal, February 15, 1785. America’s Historical Newspapers.

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About Becky Fifield

Becky Fifield is a cultural heritage professional with 25 years experience in institutions large and small. She is currently Head of Collection Management for the Special Collections of the New York Public Library. An advocate for preventive conservation, Ms. Fifield is a Professional Associate of the American Institute for Conservation, Chair of the AIC Collection Care Network, and former Chair of Alliance for Response NYC. She is also a scholar of 18th century female unfree labor and dress. There's a bit of pun in the title The Still Room, delineating a quiet space brimming with the ingredients of memory, where consideration, analysis, and wordcraft can take place. Ms. Fifield’s interests include museum practice, dress history, historic preservation, transit, social and women’s history, food, current events, geneaology, roadtrips, and considerations on general sense of place. Becky and her husband, Dr. V, live in the Hudson Valley.