A source-processing rule: connect equipment and buildings to production sequence, transport, regulation, ownership, and community rather than cataloging objects alone.
This closes the introduction and frames the distillery plant as a repository for economic and cultural memory.
Peachee argues that understanding an industrial complex requires technology, materials, innovation, related industries, landscape, history, and the social life of people who worked there, rather than isolated equipment identification.
PDF sheet 27
PDF sheet 27
Introduction — industrial archaeology method
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 argues that understanding an industrial complex requires technology, materials, innovation, related industries, landscape, history, and the social life of people who worked there, rather than isolated equipment identification.
Locator
- PDF: PDF sheet 27
- Section: Introduction — industrial archaeology method
- Evidence type: Paraphrase
Context
This closes the introduction and frames the distillery plant as a repository for economic and cultural memory.
Analytical use and caution
A source-processing rule: connect equipment and buildings to production sequence, transport, regulation, ownership, and community rather than cataloging objects alone.
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.