Map of the Soulard neighborhood surrounding Eberhard Anheuser’s Bavarian Brewery

ca. 1875

Map of the Soulard neighborhood surrounding Eberhard Anheuser’s Bavarian Brewery, ca. 1875. West is at the top of the map and the Mississippi River would be on the bottom of the map. The map illustrates the distance from the brewery to the United States arsenal located a few blocks east of the brewery along Arsenal Street. The brewery is marked with a 5 (circled in red) on the upper-right-hand portion of the map and the federal arsenal is marked with a 4 (circled in red) on the lower-right-hand portion of the map. From Pictorial St. Louis, the Great Metropolis of the Mississippi Valley: A Topographical Survey Drawn in Perspective, A.D. 1875 (St. Louis: Compton, 1876), 29.