Roop, Harbour, and Co. Steam Flour Mill and Distillery, Oskaloosa, Iowa, 1851
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Roop, Harbour, and Co. Steam Flour Mill and Distillery, Oskaloosa, Iowa, 1851
Description
The Roop, Harbour, and Co. Steam Flour Mill and Distillery, more commonly known as the Benny Roop Distillery, opened officially in 1852 for business and is the oldest known distillery in all of Mahaska County, Iowa. This is a picture of the facility taken in 1851 while the establishment was still under some construction. The cost of the building and its overhead was $20,000. Benjamin Roop came to Oskaloosa in 1845 as a very poor man and left a very poor man in 1871, after another one of his business establishments in Beacon, Iowa, failed, costing him his fortune amassed from the Roop, Harbour, and Co.'s earnings. Roop died from apoplexy on January 25, 1872 in Springfield, Missouri at the age of 72.
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Chuck Russell
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Chuck Russell
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Chuck Russell
Date
"2009-06-22"
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still image/jpeg 2000
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