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The Craig Distillery |
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Perrin (1882) provides a timeline for this idstillery: 1853 -- established by John M January, later sold to Davis (no further information) 1860 -- Davis sells to S B Cook 1867 -- S B Cook sells to C B Cook, his son. Aftre eight months, Cook sells to Lair, Redmon & Co. 1871 -- Lair, Redman & Co. sell to Lair & Kern ca 1873 -- Lair & Kern sell to John Pugh 1880 -- Pugh ran the distillery for a year and then it sat idle until it sold to T G Craig. When Craig was running the distillery, it had a capacity of 200 bushels per day, and produced 2,500 barrels annually. The distillery measured 32 x 64 ft with three floors, and fed two warehouses with a capacity of 3,500 barrels. Half of these were held in bond. The still produced the “T.G. Craig” brand and slops from the mask fed 100 cattle and 500 hogs. The distillery employed twenty hands at $1.50 per day each; 60 per cent of grain for the mash came from local sources.. Insurance underwriter records compiled in 1892 suggest that the distillery was of frame construction. The property included two bonded warehouses. The first (Warehouse "A") was built of stone with a metal or slate roof and was located 160 ft NE of the still. The second (Warehouse "B") was located 6 ft from Warehouse A, also 160 ft NE of the still. Warehouse B was iron-clad. At the time (1892), the distillery was owned by F G Craig operating as the Edgewood Distilling Co., formerly known as the Berry Distilling Co. |
Internal Revenue recorded warehouse transactions for The Craig Distillery as follows:
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