Oshkosh Archeology

I was invited to tag along yesterday on a dig at the site of the old Gambrinus Brewery on Harney Ave. This was also the location of the first bottling plant of the Oshkosh Brewing Company in the late 1800s/early 1900s.

Oshkosh diggers Bob Bergman (in the hole) and Matt Hostak.

Oddly enough, the first thing out of that hole was an 1890s swing-top bottle stopper with the Charles Maulick logo. Maulick was the bottler for Schlitz Beer in Oshkosh in the 1890s. He was also the first proprietor of the Schlitz Beer Hall, which is now Oblio’s.

Further down were bottle shards with the Maulick imprint along with an Oshkosh Brewing Company stopper and bottle shards. I'll have more to share on the exploits of Bergman and Hostak this summer.