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Collinsville’s got more going on than ketchup
About 15 miles east of downtown St. Louis, Collinsville, Illinois, is the kind of town that earns a second look.
It has a 170-foot water tower shaped like a catsup bottle, a UNESCO World Heritage Site inside its borders, and a claim to producing most of the world’s horseradish.
Any one of those would be enough to put a small town on the map. Collinsville has all three, plus a stretch of Route 66 running through it.
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A condiment company that needed its own water tower
The story behind the bottle starts in 1891, when local businessmen pooled money to open the Collinsville Canning and Packing Company…