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Franklin County, moonshine capital
1935
Rocky Mount, Franklin County, Virginia
MarmadukePercy · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Prohibition made a whole county into an industry: stills in every hollow, cars rebuilt to outrun revenue agents, and a 1935 conspiracy trial that put the sheriff's office in the dock alongside the distillers for taking a cut of it. The Bondurant brothers of Matt Bondurant's novel and the film Lawless ran liquor out of here. The Blue Ridge Institute at Ferrum keeps the copper and the court records.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
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