Illegal Distilleries

ID: 1929
This file appears in: H. E. Pogue Distillery

While many individual (moonshiners) and private operations were put out of business during Prohibition, a number of Kentucky distilleries, including Pogue's, were allowed to produce for medicinal purposes. Courtesy of the Kentucky Historical Society.

This file appears in: H. E. Pogue Distillery

By Tim Talbott
Historical Marker #2206 notes the location of the H. E. Pogue Distillery, which operated for more than fifty years near Maysville. The Ohio River route into what became Kentucky was popular with…