Connect facility, changing corporate ownership and changing product output as separate entities. Use the named archives for corroboration; label the rowboat anecdote as unverified lore rather than a documented shipping practice.
The entire written source was reviewed. Comments, when present, are distinguished from the authored article.
Cowdery reproduces the JournalStar's report of ADM's Peoria plant sale to BioUrja and describes ADM's 1982 acquisition from Hiram Walker. His history names Great Western's 1881 construction, Greenhut's presidency of the 1887 Trust formed with 65 other distilleries, Hatch's 1926 Walker acquisition, and post-Repeal Walker's DeLuxe, Ten High and Imperial. He points to Peoria Historical Society tours and Bradley's Cullom-Davis records. The claim of over 150 years on the site does not follow solely from the stated 1881 predecessor and needs earlier-site evidence. Walker's anticipation of Prohibition, Canadian export law and Jamaica-bound rowboat story are unsupported historical assertions here, not established facts. All three comments were read; possible railroad/grain-terminal inclusion is a reader's speculation, not deal documentation.
Three comments through March 3,2022
1940s photograph caption and sale report
1940s photograph caption and sale report; Walker and post-Repeal Peoria history; Great Western, Whiskey Trust and local archives; Three comments through March 3,2022
Source-faithful paraphrase only; not independent corroboration. Historical photograph unreviewed. No sale closing documents, Canadian export statute, Walker correspondence or Trust records checked. 'Largest' and 'technically legal' are period claims without specified metric/legal basis.2021 sale report not a current ownership audit.
No access / Whiskey Excerpts Database (USWA)
Source-faithful paraphrase. Verified does not mean independently corroborated.
Evidence
Cowdery reproduces the JournalStar's report of ADM's Peoria plant sale to BioUrja and describes ADM's 1982 acquisition from Hiram Walker. His history names Great Western's 1881 construction, Greenhut's presidency of the 1887 Trust formed with 65 other distilleries, Hatch's 1926 Walker acquisition, and post-Repeal Walker's DeLuxe, Ten High and Imperial. He points to Peoria Historical Society tours and Bradley's Cullom-Davis records. The claim of over 150 years on the site does not follow solely from the stated 1881 predecessor and needs earlier-site evidence. Walker's anticipation of Prohibition, Canadian export law and Jamaica-bound rowboat story are unsupported historical assertions here, not established facts. All three comments were read; possible railroad/grain-terminal inclusion is a reader's speculation, not deal documentation.
Location and context
No access. 1940s photograph caption and sale report; Walker and post-Repeal Peoria history; Great Western, Whiskey Trust and local archives; Three comments through March 3,2022.
Full written article reviewed; embedded evidence remains pending.
Annotation
Connect facility, changing corporate ownership and changing product output as separate entities. Use the named archives for corroboration; label the rowboat anecdote as unverified lore rather than a documented shipping practice.
Historical photograph unreviewed. No sale closing documents, Canadian export statute, Walker correspondence or Trust records checked. 'Largest' and 'technically legal' are period claims without specified metric/legal basis.2021 sale report not a current ownership audit.