Natural and manmade caverns in the limestone
and sandstone bluffs along the Straight River provided an ideal
climate for products which required aging. The first of these
was beer, with breweries founded by the
Fleckenstein family, among others in the area. When Godfrey Fleckenstein
gave up his own production to join his brother, Ernst, his brewery
(left) became the site of various enterprises until purchased
by Felix Frederiksen in 1936.
Frederiksen founded the Treasure
Cave Cheese Company, manufacturing and storing blue cheese in the
caves that he expanded to be 19 feet high, 15 feet wide and about
1000 feet long (right).
