Brown's Brewery

However, according to Rob Kasper writing in The Baltimore Sun, the mayor found that simultaneously "brewing and governing" was too demanding and put the newly rebuilt brewery up for sale in 1813.

[6] He was an acquaintance of Mary Pickersgill, who had been commissioned by Colonel George Armistead in 1813 to make a large flag (30 by 42 feet) to fly over Fort McHenry.

Pickersgill did not have adequate space in her house to assemble a flag of that size and lived only a block away from Brown's Brewery.

The Claggett family continued to run the brewery until 1879 when the business closed and the property was sold to the National Casket Company.

A commemorative plaque was placed on the site, although it erroneously gave Claggett's name as the owner of the brewery when Mary Pickersgill assembled the flag.

[5] A similar anachronism appears in Robert McGill Mackall's 1976 painting, Mary Pickersgill Making the Star-Spangled Banner (on display at the Maryland Historical Society) which depicts several beer barrels in the background labelled "Claggett's Brewery".