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Roop, Harbour, and Co. Steam Flour Mill and Distillery, Oskaloosa, Iowa, 1851

Roop, Harbour, and Co. Steam Flour Mill and Distillery, Oskaloosa, Iowa, 1851

Title

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.

Creator

Chuck Russell

Source

Chuck Russell

Publisher

Chuck Russell

Date

"2009-06-22"

Rights

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Format

still image/jpeg 2000

Type

image

Identifier

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Collection