Purity Distilling Company

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The Purity Distilling Company was a chemical firm based in Boston Massachusetts and specializing in the production of ethanol (C2H6O) through the distillation process. It was a subsidiary of United States Industrial Alcohol Company, who purchased the company in 1917.

Boston Molasses Disaster

In 1919, one of its large molasses tanks collapsed at 529 Commercial Street. It was a huge tank (50 ft (15 m) tall, 240 ft (70 m) around and containing as much as 2.3 million US gallons (9,500 m³ or 9,500,000 liters) of molasses. This lead to the Boston Molasses Disaster in the North End neighborhood of Boston. The clean up took about 6 months to complete, after which the company was sued and trialed with over $1 million in settlement claims.

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