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Glen Spey distillery was built in 1878 by James Stuart & Co. under the name 'Mill of Rothes'. It actually started its life as an oatmeal mill - founder James Stuart was a corn merchant before he ventured into the whisky world.
Glen Spey is a hamlet in the town of Lumberland, Sullivan County, New York, United States. [1] Its ZIP code is 12737. [ 2 ] The town's name is in reference to the spring-filled ravines, or glens, that characterize the Delaware River tributaries in the area.
Glen Grant was founded in 1840, by brothers John and James Grant, two former illegal distillers and smugglers who decided to take out a license. With the sea and port of Garmouth nearby, the River Spey at its feet and barley-growing plains nearby, all the basic ingredients of malt whisky were close at hand. This time the distillery was legal.
Rothes is home to four distilleries—Speyburn-Glenlivet Distillery, Glen Grant Distillery, [8] Glen Spey Distillery and Glenrothes Distillery. Caperdonich distillery was the fifth in the town but was mothballed in 2002 and demolished in 2010. [9] Rothes's Glen Grant distillery opened its own bottling plant in 2013.
Vasyl Barka (Ukrainian: Василь Барка; real name — Vasyl Kostiantynovych Ocheret (Ukrainian: Василь Костянтинович Очерет), another pseudo — Ivan Vershyna (Ukrainian: Іван Вершина); 16 July 1908, Solonytsia [] [1] – 11 April 2003, Glen Spey [2]) was an American-residing Ukrainian poet, writer, literary critic, and translator.
Camp Diana-Dalmaqua was a Jewish summer sleepaway camp in Glen Spey in the Catskill Mountains of New York State. Founded in the 1920s as two separate camps, Diana-Dalmaqua was typical of the numerous camps which served (and still serve) the children of the New York City metropolitan area. The camp was typical of many in the area offering a ...
While other Highlanders were emigrating in the face of the changes that were sweeping away the old Highland way of life, Sir James Grant was busy building an entire town, building schools, mills, factories, a hospital, an orphanage, etc. to provide for his Clan. Grantown-on-Spey is a monument to Sir James's loyalty to his clansmen.
Speyburn distillery was founded in 1897 by John Hopkins & Company for the sum of £17,000. The site was chosen by John Hopkins himself for its unpolluted water supply from the Granty Burn, a minor tributary of the River Spey. Hopkins appointed the famous distillery architect Charles C Doig to design the distillery and to this day Speyburn has ...