Claim Citation Readiness
Claim Count
2
Claim Fact-Check Status
Claims
Contributors
Date Precision
Exact year
Destination URL
Display Date
1880
End Sort Year
Era
Expansion and Industrialization
Event ID
91
Evidence Confidence
Strong
Featured?
Geography
Peoria, Illinois
Historical Significance
Provides contemporary federal evidence that a major American distilling center functioned as an urban industrial ecosystem rather than an isolated collection of stills.
Last Reviewed
September 2, 2026
Publication Status
Published
Record Type
Event
Research Notes
Printed pp. 525–526 are the evidentiary core. Attribute contemporary rankings to the Census Office. The generated OCR misreads 50,000 cattle as 60,000; the high-resolution page image controls.
Scope
American Whiskey Core
Start Sort Year
1880
Summary
The Census Office connected Peoria’s nationally prominent spirits output to corn, river and rail transport, distillery swill, stockyards, and large-scale livestock handling.
Thematic Lanes
Business and MarketsTechnology and ProductionAgriculture and GrainPeople and LaborGeography and Migration
Timeline Date
January 1, 1880