A Historical Column From The Fayette County Historical Commission
The Bluff Schuetzen Verein
By Carolyn Heinsohn
The Bluff Schuetzen Verein, a German shooting club, was organized in the late 1860s by Heinrich L. Kreische, best known as the builder and brewmaster of the Kreische Brewery, which was operated from circa 1860 to 1884. Having been a stonemason before his brewing endeavors, he built a number of homes, stone bridges and commercial buildings in the a…