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The Brainerd Brewing Co. on Boom Lake’s east shore was in operation as late as 1914. Razed a decade later, part of the brewery’s foundation was uncovered by the Brainerd History Group in 2009.
The construction of the Northern Pacific Railway in the Brainerd lakes area didn’t come easy. But once the tracks were laid, officials immediately turned their attention to the construction of a passenger depot as an area transit hub for the burgeoning community of Brainerd.
The Brainerd Brewing Co. began in 1880 as a brewery on the east shore of Boom Lake near where Kiwanis Park is today. The beer was mostly enjoyed locally. But Prohibition put an end to the brewery in 1914.
Cars, trucks and sport-utility vehicles in Brainerd are a common sight today. But horse-drawn and then electric streetcars provided public transportation in the early years of the city’s history.