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Catoctin Creek Distillery, at the historic Case Building in Old Town Purcellville, Virginia. The Catoctin Creek Distilling Company (/ k ə ˈ t ɒ k t ən / kə-TOK-tən), which operates under the trade name of Catoctin Creek, is the first legal distillery in Loudoun County, Virginia, since prohibition. [1]
By 1959, it was the second largest brewery in Baltimore, one of the major centers of brewing in America, when it produced 800,000 barrels per year and employed approximately 600 people. Hamm's Brewing Company bought the Gunther Brewing Company in 1960, and later became part of Miller Brewing Company.
In the charter, the Potomac Company had three years to clear the upper Potomac, and ten years to build a bypass canals and locks around the Little and Great Falls (a distance of 175 miles). Both states passed additional laws to go further—building roads and connecting headwaters in order to link the Potomac River to the Ohio River.
Accokeek/Potomac served as the headquarters of the Principio Company until it was closed in the mid-1750s. The Maryland works were burnt by British forces in 1813. In 1836, the site and its ruined buildings were purchased by Joseph Whitaker , his brothers George P. Whitaker and Joseph Whitaker II, and partners Thomas Garrett (a prominent ...
A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion (Des Moines, IA: Dyer Pub. Co.), 1908. Shaw, Benjamin Burbridge. Guarding the River, the Canal, and the Railroad: Papers of Captain Benjamin Burbridge Shaw, Commanding Officer, Company D, 2nd Regiment, Potomac Home Brigade, Maryland Volunteers (New Creek, WV: J. Sanders), 1998. ISBN 0-8701-2597-4 ...
The reorganized company, the Baltimore Chesapeake and Atlantic railroad (BC&A), was incorporated on August 30, 1894, with its principal office in Salisbury, Maryland. [2] That same year, the railroad also acquired several steamboat companies; namely the Maryland, Choptank and Eastern Shore Steamboat Companies, all of Baltimore, Md. for $1.7 ...
The company was founded as the Willett Distilling Company in 1936. The company has remained under family ownership and operation at the same location since it was created [ 1 ] John David Willett (born in 1841) had been the master distiller for the Moore, Willett & Frenke Distillery, which he had formed with his brother-in-law Thomas S. Moore ...
The Potomac Wharf Branch was a historic railroad located in Maryland. It was built by the Maryland Mining Company between 1846 and 1850, as an extension to the Eckhart Branch Railroad . The Potomac Wharf Branch crossed Wills Creek on a bridge (no longer present) just east of the present Route 40 road bridge near Cumberland .