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Historic Rock Brid^ July 4 as Ga;{The old Rock Bridge farm, tux miles; south of Columbia, around which much ! of the interesting history of the earlier days of Boone County is inseparably • woven, is about to be changed into a I place of modernism. fThe next few weeks time will witness' the erection of an amu*erm?it park on [ the place once alive with romances of the ! old southern slave days whlt;vi steamboats beat their slow, steady, monotonous way * up the Missouri River, carry ins provi- | sions to the inland towns from t. Louis , and affording pleasure to the merry crowds of travelers who were going westward in the days when traveling was not so common place as now.The Rock Bridge farm has changed hands many times in the la«t half ccn-d|tury. The first notation of it’s ownership on the Boone County records is in 1 1825. when the records show the land in the possession of David S. UmoK and a Mr. Reiser. In a few yean* David S.Lamme and hi* brother Willijm Lamm* got complete possession of the farm, then amounting to a little more than *rv- j rn hundred acres . The Lamme brothers ! migrated from Kentucky.Th«vi on June 26. 18-17 the l^unme I brother* sold the farm to Jamc* McCou-1 athy. When Mr. Conathy got ‘ possession of the property. find- • ing a large portion of it not suitable toraising crops and other condition* being | favorable, be carted a distillery. The i1plant made a Rye W hisky under the la-}1 bel of McConathyV Rye which was famous for its high qualities throughout « this sect km for many year* when the sale i‘ and rosnufarture of alcoholic drink* was •fegaliurd by the government.McConalhv sold the farm to thr Em-mitt fatale. After running the farm and operating the distillery for a few years the Lmmitt estate disposed of the farm to J. K. Fyfer, who still lives in Columbia. and the portion of ground with th«l4 distillery, about two acre* in all. was fpurchased by J. A. Heibel. Mr. Heibel when it was closed hrrause of a state law continued to run the distillery until 1907 and ha» not been run since. Mr. HeibH still owns the property. The farm ex »c •elusive of the distillery was sold by Mr. 1( i Fyfer to Charles Gillette and from Gil- £ lette it passed into possession of W. M. Dutton. In February of this year Mr. Dutton sold it to Glen A. and Noami M. Calkins who are the present owners. The farm as it now stands comprises 861 acres. ^The old brick building on Ash street now used by the Gas Company for its offices was built by Mr. Conathy and uscri by him to sell hi* whisky. Many of the older residents can recall the days when this building was the seat of a flourishing jug trade.”
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The Columbia Evening Missourian
Columbia, Missouri, US
Fri, Jun 23, 1922
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