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Bomberger's Distillery

Newmanstown, Pennsylvania
County of Lebanon.
National Register Number: 75001649
 Resource type: Building.
Property type: Industry/Processing/Extract. - manufacturing. The threat level was Threatened in
2002.
Congressional District: PA-17 Certified Local Government: NO

Statement of Significance (as of designation - January 16, 1980):
Dating from 1753, Bomberger's, the Nation's oldest distillery, represented the transformation of whiskey distilling from an agricultural enterprise into a large-scale industry. The Still House, Warehouse, and Jug House date from about 1840.

Condition:
The distillery is severely deteriorated from lack of maintenance.


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