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Bushy Run Battlefield hosts whiskey distilling program

Aleasha Monroe, chief of staff of the West Overton Village museum, checks the gravity or alcohol content of the white whiskey during a recent stripping run of the rye whiskey at West Overton Distilling in East Huntingdon Township.

Thirty years before farmers and distillers in Western Pennsylvania rebelled against an unpopular federal tax on their cash product — whiskey — British and colonial troops defeated a force of Native Americans at the Battle of Bushy Run in August 1763, in what is now Penn Township.


Source: The Tribune-Review

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