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Corn cash
The suppression of the Whiskey Rebellion had an unintended consequence: small whiskey producers were encouraged to relocate to the thenfrontier lands or rural areas such as the mountain hollows of Virginia and North Carolina which were outside the sphere of Federal control for many years. For farmers in remote parts of the country, it was a way to turn their into cash when prices were down. They just ignored the tax consequences. The original excise tax that fomented the 1794 Rebellion was abolished about 1800, but was replaced by other State and Federal taxes (you thought the VA ABC stores are just for your convenience?).
Few written records are known to exist about ‘shining’ in Rappahannock County, although occasionally an old still turns up way back on a farm. Many of the county’s extensive gristmills operated legal bonded distilleries as a sideline, so perhaps the contraband product was not so common here. But no, a safer bet would be that there were once plenty of ‘dew factories’ in our hollows, especially with proximity to Washington, D.C. during prohibition. Local oral history does indicate that many a vote was ‘purchased’ and the emphasis of not a few laws ‘altered’ over the years in response to distribution of copious amounts of the contents of certain jugs’ by candidates and lobbyists respectively.
“Watch them jugs a-filling. In the pale moonlight. ”
But forget prohibition, forget the revenuers, forget graft and corruption, happy times are here again and we’re talking big-time cash crop. So let’s get
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