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Whiskey Manufacturing in 1856...



Item # 220060

November 20, 1856

NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, Washington, Nov. 20, 1856.
 
* Manufacturing of whiskey
* Early Superior Wisconsin settlement


A page 3 report under Manufacture of Whiskey describes the large scale production of whiskey at Cincinnati. Another item says that Superior, Wisconsin, was first settled in 1854 and by January 1856 had a population of 500, and presently had 100 families cultivating farms and a population of 1,200, a weekly newspaper & is the terminus of two railroads. Trimmed a bit close at the top.

Category: Pre-Civil War