Purity Distilling Company
| Headquarters | Boston Massachusetts, United States |
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| Owner | United States Industrial Alcohol Company |
The Purity Distilling Company was a chemical firm based in Boston, Massachusetts specializing in the production of ethanol through the distillation process. It was a subsidiary of United States Industrial Alcohol Company who purchased the company in 1917.
Boston Molasses Disaster
Main article: Boston Molasses Disaster
In 1919, one of its large molasses tanks collapsed at 529 Commercial Street. It was a huge tank (50 ft tall, 240 ft around) and held as much as 2.3 million gallons of molasses. This led to the Boston Molasses Disaster in the North End neighborhood of Boston. Twenty-one people died, and the cleanup took about 6 months to complete, after which the company was sued and forced to pay over $1 million in settlement claims.[1]
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- Finding Aid to the Albert Ladd Colby Report on the Boston Molasses Tank Explosion, Special Collections, Linderman Library, Lehigh University
- January 15: 1919, Molasses Floods Boston Streets from History.com
- Jesse Kreitzer's The Great Boston Molasses Flood video (YouTube.com)
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