Stories

Lost in the Woods

109 miles on the back roads of Lawrence County in 4 hours and 10 minutes was my experience Wednesday. Our tour started on Hogskin Road with John Blagg

Lewis Brooks Sr. Obit

Lewis Brooks Sr., age 80 years, died last Saturday at his home on Centre Street. He was a well-known colored citizen of Red Hill, back of Proctorville, until about two years ago, when his property was burned and he moved to Ironton.

Moonshine Stories 1959

Last October, more moonshine stills were confiscated in Ohio than in West Virginia which long has been a butt of jokes and cartoons on the bottling of “mountain dew.”

Moonshine Stories 1953

Three Stills Found in Hills Near Ironton - Federal agents and Sheriff Carl Rose of Lawrence County, Ohio, raided three moonshine stills in the hills near the Ohio River Friday, the first such raid...

Moonshine Stories 1951

Clyde Adkins of Greasy Ridge, Ohio, had what federal alcohol tax agents described as a thriving moonshine, business. Agents said he made the brew in a 110-gallon still on his farm, trucked it to Huntington, and then sold

Moonshine Stories 1940

Moonshine Stories 1940 – On motion of Charles M. Love, Jr, Assistant United States District Attorney, the court released Clovis Adkins, Denver Harmon, and Granville Brammer, all of near Greasy Ridge, Lawrence County, Ohio.

Moonshine Stories 1938

Two Bound Over in Liquor Cases Pike Countian [Ohio] in Jail; Oakley Montgomery Out on $2,000 Bond Two men were held for Federal Grand Jury investigation Tuesday when arraigned before J. Julian...

Moonshine Stories 1937

Moonshine 1937 – Fourteen persons were nabbed in a raid on a Third street home in Ironton, Ohio, Saturday. Mae Davis Lewis is charged with having untaxed whisky in her possession.

Moonshine Stories 1936

Moonshine 1936 – Federal agents here, operating in Lawrence county, destroyed a 60-gallon still, which they uncovered in Boneyard Hollow near Ironton. No arrests were made

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