Historical industrial geography and cultural memory. The passage supplies neither a current production ranking nor a modern output census.
Rothbaum contrasts Peoria’s historical production scale with its weak place in modern whiskey memory.
Peoria, Illinois, was repeatedly described as a national whiskey center, produced at industrial scale before World War I, and retained a major distillery until 1979; its later disappearance from popular memory narrows American whiskey history around Kentucky.
Displayed p. 104 / complete PDF sheets 239–241
American Whiskey — Peoria
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Evidence
Peoria, Illinois, was repeatedly described as a national whiskey center, produced at industrial scale before World War I, and retained a major distillery until 1979; its later disappearance from popular memory narrows American whiskey history around Kentucky.
Location and context
American Whiskey — Peoria. Displayed p. 104; complete supplied PDF sheets 239–241. Earlier partial-copy sheets 234–236 remain archival locators only.
Critical assessment
Historical industrial geography and cultural memory. The passage supplies neither a current production ranking nor a modern output census.
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