Solving the Mystery of the Black’s India Pale Ale Bottle from the John Marsh House, Contra Costa County, California
Author(s): Glenn J. Farris
Year: 2020
Summary
This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
During excavations at the John Marsh House built in the mid-1850s several whole bottles were found in the foundation trench. Two were Hunyadi Janos bottles, but the third was an exciting find because it still retained a paper label that was mostly intact that said “Black’s India Pale Ale.” Over the next thirty years efforts to learn more about this bottle were ineffectual. However, some recent serendipitous sleuthing made easier by the wonders of the internet finally brought the answers to not only where the bottle came from but how it got to San Francisco and subsequently to its final resting place.
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Solving the Mystery of the Black’s India Pale Ale Bottle from the John Marsh House, Contra Costa County, California. Glenn J. Farris. 2020 ( tDAR id: 457255)
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Keywords
General
Aberdeen
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California
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India Pale Ale
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Scotland
Geographic Keywords
United States of America
Temporal Keywords
1850s
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 273