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The Excelsior Distillery was built by T J Megibben ca. 1850. Perrin (1882) notes that the distillery had a daily capacity of 700 bushels, producing 8,000 barrels annually. The distillery itself measured 70 x 40 ft and was three stories in height with two engines of ninety horsepower. Product was stored in two brick and one iron-clad warehouse, with total capacity of 17,500 barrels. In 1882, 11,300 barrels of the “T.J. Megibben & Bro., Excelsior Distillery” brand were in bond. The distillery had a cooper-shop attached with daily capacity of fifty barrels, fed 250 cattle and 500 hogs annually; employed forty hands on an average of $2 per day, and obtained 75 per cent of corn from the county. The distillery owners were Thomas J Megibben & Bro., who in 1882 were erecting a large flour-mill and distillery at Lair’s; capacity of mill fifty barrels of flour per day; of distillery, 150 bushels per day. This may have been RD #19. Insurance underwriter records compiled in 1896 note that the distillery property included cattle pens 140 ft south of the still, and three warehouses: Warehouse A -- built of brick but one wall had fallen and was boarded. It lay 80 ft east of the still, Warehouse B -- part free, made of brick with a metal or slate roof, 110 ft east of the still, Warehouse C -- iron-clad with a metal or slate roof, 72 ft eats of the still and 12 ft from the other two warehouses. At that time, it was owned by T J Megibben & Bro., the Megibben Excelsior Co. |
Internal Revenue recorded warehouse transactions for The Excelsior Distillery as follows:
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