Century-Old Message in a Bottle Found at Ford Factory in Detroit


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Pre-Prohibition-Era Stroh’s Beer Bottle With A Mysterious Message | FordThey sent an S.O.S. Two crew members helping to create Ford’s new multi-use campus stumbled upon a message in a bottle, literally. The Stroh bottle, which came from an old brewery in East Detroit, that the members found was more than just a paper inside an old bottle; it contained a message that waited over a century for someone to find it and read. The Stroh bottle it was found in didn’t make it far, and the original Stroh’s brewery was located across the city in East Detroit before closing shop in 1985. Along with 200 other pieces discovered by the construction workers, the message in a bottle was most noteworthy because of its message.