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McCormick Distilling Company is a distillery and alcoholic beverage importing company in Weston, Missouri.Established by Ben Holladay in 1856, the distillery has been registered in the National Register of Historic Places and is the oldest distillery west of the Mississippi River that is still operating at its original location.
English: The McCormick Distillery outside Weston, Missouri. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places. This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America .
Junction of MO P and Woodruff Rd. 39°25′53″N 94°51′21″W / 39.431389°N 94.855833°W / 39.431389; -94.855833 ( Pleasant Ridge United Baptist Weston
E. J. Siler, a farmer near Weston, Mo., covers his tobacco plants to protect them from nature’s elements. One of the few remaining tobacco plants in 1979 awaits harvest near Weston, Mo.
He then settled in Weston, Missouri, where he worked as a store clerk before serving as courier during the 1838 Mormon War for the state militia. [2] After working at the store for a few years he opened a tavern and hotel in 1840, as well as starting what would become the McCormick Distilling Company , which claims to be the oldest distillery ...
Weston Historic District is a national historic district located at Weston, Platte County, Missouri.The district encompasses 16 full blocks and portions of 8 additional city blocks in the central business district and surrounding residential sections of Weston.
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Weston was the oldest settlement in the Platte Purchase of 1836 and was therefore also the farthest western settlement (thus, "West Town") in the United States until the admission of Texas as a state in 1845. Another suggested theory of origin is related to a story about a discharged US Army dragoon by the name of Joseph Moore.