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Museum of the Albemarle
New to the Museum of the Albemarle is moonshine,
white lightnin’, juniper juice, whiskey flasks, speakeasies,
and a fast, black 1957 Chevy. All of these are
a part of the Museum’s newest exhibit Temperance and
Bootlegging: A Nation Under Prohibition.
The exhibition opened January 18, 2020 but will remain
on display until November 2020. Retractable banners and
wall mounted panels discuss how the 18th Amendment
to the Constitution banned production, sale, importation,
exportation, and transportation of alcoholic beverages in
the United States and the lasting effects on rural areas
such as northeastern North Carolina and southeastern
Virginia. The exhibit discusses temperance organizations
such as the American Temperance Union, the Anti-Saloon
League and the Women’s Christian Temperance Union to
temper, or curb, alcohol use. Moonshine, revenue officers,
saloons, and moonshine capitals and kings are also highlighted.
Artifacts include a miniature still, a temperance card and
medal, stone jugs, and whiskey bottles dating from the
18th century to the 1930s including a circa 1926 “Eastlake
Pure Rye Whisky” bottle and a pint size bottle marked “J.
B. Bergeron Liquor Dealer, Elizabeth City” dating from
1892-1902.
By: Wanda Lassiter, Curator,
Museum of the Albemarle
and the black 1957 Chevrolet Sedan borrowed from Mr.
Wayne Perry.
The Museum has also produced six traveling retractable
banners to be loaned to institutions or organizations free
of charge. Please contact us if you are interested in borrowing
the traveling components.
The Museum of the Albemarle is located at 501 S. Water Street,
Elizabeth City, NC. (252) 335-1453. Hours are Monday through
Saturday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Closed Sundays and State Holidays.
Serving Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Gates,
Hertford, Hyde, Northampton, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Tyrrell,
and Washington Counties, the museum is the northeast regional
history museum of the North Carolina Division of State History
Museums within the N.C. Department of Cultural Resources, the
state agency with the mission to enrich lives and communities and
the vision to harness the state’s cultural resources to build North
Carolina’s social, cultural and economic future.
The highlights of the exhibit include moonshine still
components recovered by the North Carolina Alcohol
Law Enforcement agency during a raid in Bertie County
That would be a good thing
for them to cut on my tombstone:
Wherever she went,
including here, it was against
her better jugment.
- Dorothy Parker
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