This photo shows the area as it appeared in the very
early 1900s. The street running past us on the left is Penn Street. We can
see the intersection with Brush Creek Road and almost with Trolley Street,
which runs past the large white farmhouse in the background. The distillery
itself was probably the building on the left next to the water tower. The
current owners work out of a newer building made of concrete blocks (the one
with the white roof in the arial photo) which occupies the original
distillery's foundations and the old stone foundation blocks of the
structure next to it is also occupied by a more modern building. The large
stone warehouse on the right is probably the one seen in the photograph
above; the smaller warehouse silhouetted in the foreground would then be the
brick building that remains standing today.
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