Supports a layered-site model. Dates and individual redevelopment outcomes require site-specific corroboration.
The J. E. Pepper case moves from nineteenth-century plant to 1935 modernization, 1980s abandonment, dismantling, and planned reuse.
Peachee describes distillery complexes as layered sites repeatedly built, upgraded, abandoned, dismantled, reclaimed, and reoccupied; a photograph therefore captures one point within an evolving material history.
PDF sheet 18
PDF sheet 17
Introduction — occupation and reoccupation
2026-09-29: main text/captions read across 274 screens; all pages visually surveyed and 22 enlarged details inspected. This record is bounded to its cited observation or source assertion, not independent historical/engineering corroboration. Whole-source full review remains open for embedded fine print. Text locator rechecked.
Verified source evidence from the complete review of Carol Peachee's The Birth of Bourbon.
Evidence
Peachee describes distillery complexes as layered sites repeatedly built, upgraded, abandoned, dismantled, reclaimed, and reoccupied; a photograph therefore captures one point within an evolving material history.
Locator
- PDF: PDF sheet 17–18
- Section: Introduction — occupation and reoccupation
- Evidence type: Paraphrase
Context
The J. E. Pepper case moves from nineteenth-century plant to 1935 modernization, 1980s abandonment, dismantling, and planned reuse.
Analytical use and caution
Supports a layered-site model. Dates and individual redevelopment outcomes require site-specific corroboration.
Verification
Complete 274-sheet page-by-page textual and visual review completed 2026-08-26; image-caption pairing inspected in numbered contact sheets and locator checked against extracted text.