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Mrs. Mary O'Connell, one of the last people to get water from an old pump at Church Street / Fountain Road, Cookstown, County Tyrone. c1968.






Dec. 16, 1862 During the long cold winters miners gathered in the many saloons in Bannack to pass the time. Robert Kirkpatrick described the drink served up in the bars: “ The whiskey was often made with two barrels of water and a few plugs of tobacco with a quantity of camphor and a little stricknine to give it tang to a barrel of pure whiskey making three barrels of red eye. When the ‘forty rod’ got near the bottom of the barrel it was so dangerous that a man sometimes dropped dead from the effects of a few glasses, having too much tang near the bottom of the barrel.” The Beaverhead County Museum photo of the Mannheim Brewery was built about 1863 but no longer stands.