The former Union Brewery owned by the Yaekel Family, was built beginning the 1840s, before Pearl Street, which runs by the complex, was even laid out. The owner’s house, seen above and below, was one of the first buildings built in the complex.

Later known as the Bluff City Brewery, the building below in the foreground was wash room, probably for returned kegs. Behind, with the hipped roof building with cupola, was the location for packing and more washing.

Further on behind it were the brew house and support buildings.

The stone building below was a fermenting cellar; to the right extending into the hillside were additional underground lagering cellars.

Below along Pearl Street was first the office and warehouse.

The brewery survived Prohibition making near beer but was run out of business in the consolidation of the 1970s as the titans forced smaller concerns into oblivion.

The valley around the brewery have other interesting buildings, as well.

As mentioned before, the valleys are long and slender, with houses on one side of the street and steep wooded hillsides on the other.