THE MOORHEAD BREWERY

In 1875, the Larkin brothers of Winnipeg built a brewery almost exactly on the site of today’s tennis courts in Moorhead’s Riverfront Park. They soon sold their business to hotel owner John Erickson who served the local brew in his saloon. Erickson also shipped kegs and bottles of the suds up and down the NP Railway line. Ole Aslesen bought the brewery in the late 1890s and continued the operation until it burned in 1901.