Freebridge Brewing is the dream of a fifth generation Oregon ranch family – Steve Light and Laurie Petroff-Light. On Laurie’s Matriarchal side, Great Grandma Matilda Hendricks walked into Fort Dalles Oregon as a young girl on the Oregon trail. Most likely over the Freebridge. Today, the Petroff family continues to farm wheat and run cattle in the Fifteen Mile Creek valley.
The story about the “Freebridge” goes that the “Moody” toll bridge charged 25 cents for each wagon crossing. The “Freebridge” over the Deschutes River just south… and built earlier where at first was an Oregon Trail ferry crossing… was as the name Implies, “free”. This was until the Freebridge was “mysteriously” blown down…on fire. By the Moody’s? Today, there are no hard feelings just great folklore. Ohhh the wild west.
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