'Industry'
Podcast #9 – Peoria: Whiskey Capital of the World
Posted on 27. Jun, 2009 by ATLAS.
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Some would like to forget that it was distilleries and breweries that made Peoria a boom town where fortunes were made almost overnight. Peoria once produced more whiskey than any city in history. The whiskey tax that Peoria paid to the federal government was larger than any other district in the United States, ahead of Chicago and Cincinnati.
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Podcast #8 – Peoria: A Brief History
Posted on 27. Jun, 2009 by ATLAS.
Standing atop Grand View Drive visitors can see what the Native Americans must have seen 12,000 years ago when they first discovered the lush river valley of Peoria. In 1910, President Teddy Roosevelt coined the phrase, World’s Most Beautiful Drive, when he visited Peoria and toured the two and half miles of Grand View Drive.
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