Illegal Distilleries

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

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 settlers from Maryland, Pennsylvania, and northern…