| Brewery Histories | 17 Sep 2008 |
| The Breweries of Alton, Illinois by Dan Morean | |
The Breweries of Alton Alton, Illinois
- Written by Kevin Kious and Donald Roussin and reprinted with permissin from the American Breweriana Journal.
Alton, Illinois is located on limestone bluffs rising above the Mississippi River just five miles from its
junction with the Missouri River, and about twenty-five miles north of St. Louis, Missouri. A number of
important events in American history occurred there, such as the slaying of abolitionist editor Elijah P.
Lovejoy in 1837, and the hosting of the final Lincoln-Douglas debate in 1858.
