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Shown at the lower left is the Quindaro Lager Beer Brewery. The dotted outline adjacent and immediately left to the building locates the cooling chamber for the brewery. This was a common architectural element in breweries of the period. Interestingly enough, Quindaro was known as a town that forbade alcohol. One establishment was forced to destroy the whiskey on its premises. Yet the temperance movement seemed to focus on 'hard liquor' rather than lager beer. However, the brewery was built near the outskirts of town and may reflect the general temperance nature of the town. The grey colored roadway stops just prior to the brewery. In this image, the road winds it's way out of the image frame and then reappears as it moves up the hill, (toward the top of the image), and toward the African American Cemetery established about 1865. (The municipal cemetery for Quindaro, i.e. the Quindaro cemetery is located at what is now North 38th Street and Parrallel Parkway, Kansas City, Kansas).
The small square in the bottom center of the image is the 'pump house.' It is located between Quindaro Creek, which is the longer blue line shown passing under the road at left bottom, and the drainage stream which passes upward from the bottom center of the image and meets Quindaro Creek after passing the pump house. The pump house had within it a circular cistern, which feed water via a tile culvert following the contour, down towards Fifth and Kanzas Avenue. Only a portion of it remains. The name of the structure may be confusing, as there was no 'pumping' that occurred in 1857, rather gravity was the source of flow. Later, the building was transformed into a water pumping station for Western University and probably derives its current name from that function.
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