Home Rule Comes for Home Brew: Mapping Whiskey Regulation in the United States
Posted by: Lena Mattson
The production of distilled spirits, especially whiskey, has been an economic asset of the United States since the earliest days of the republic. Battles, sometimes literally as in the case of the Whiskey Rebellion, erupted at times over how to regulate and tax distillers. Over the course of the 19th century, Congress acted and other industries stepped in to help with the regulation, leading to maps of whiskey production elements such as bonded warehouses, which appear prominently on some Sanborn fire insurance maps.
Posted in: America 250, American History