“Christian Heurich ran a brewery in D.C. for a living, but he ran a successful dairy farm in Hyattsville almost as a hobby. After immigrating to the United States in 1866 with just $200, Heurich eventually became the owner of a hugely successful brewery, the city’s second largest landowner and its largest employer apart from the federal government. Heurich bought the farm in 1887 on the advice of his doctor. It may or may not be true that the farm operated at a loss, as some family members speculate, but it clearly served a secondary purpose of giving Heurich a peaceful place to visit. He stayed at a large Stick-style frame house with a wraparound porch when on the property, and when his second wife, Mathilde, died in 1895, he built an elaborate granite mausoleum where the Giant parking lot is today.”
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