1873 — German immigrant Adolph Coors founds the Golden Brewery with business partner Jacob Schueler in an old tannery, producing the first bottles of Golden Lager just one year later.
1880 — Coors buys out Schueler, renaming his business the Coors Brewery.
1890s and 1900s — Coors makes several improvements to the Coors plant property, including the rerouting of Clear Creek, from which the brewery takes its water, and the construction of an electric power plant.
