A century ago, Harford County was swimming in spirits. Prohibition was law but, in Maryland’s outlier counties, liquor flowed. Moonshiners ran stills in the old barns and deep woods, and bootleggers ...
Excerpts from The News Journal archives include Prohibition pros and cons in 1926, Wilmington school desegregation in 1976, ...
A Chicago-area distillery known for its deep ties to Al Capone and the Prohibition era has uncovered a striking new piece of ...
Over 100 years ago this month, Congress approved the act that would soon make prohibition the law of the land. While some Louisianans supported the so-called “noble experiment,” most were unhappy with ...
On January 16, 1920, the United States began enforcing Prohibition, a nationwide ban on the manufacture and sale of alcoholic ...
In 1728, as a group of residents in the western part of Chester County sought to create a more locally administered county, their petition to the authorities mentioned that “thieves, vagabonds and ill ...
Ordering a beer at Zoetropolis Cinema Stillhouse during LancasterHistory's June 4 History Happy Hour program will be a lot less risky than it was nearly 100 years ago, when the location doubled as a ...
Stearns County has a rich history of bootlegging and speakeasies from the Prohibition era. Several Stearns County families turned to moonshine to make a living. Today, central Minnesota is home to ...
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