Stories, quotes and anecdotes from Appalachia. 1880s-1950s era.

Category: Appalachian crime

We mean death to the distillery and the brewery

Madison County, KY native Frances Estill Beauchamp spearheaded the late 19th century antiliquor crusade in Kentucky.

Poe Mill employees, photographed in 1910, when mill worker J.C. Lindley allegedly murdered mill worker Ben Allen.

Harpe brothers killed at least 40 men, women & children on the frontier until a posse caught up & took the leader’s head on Aug. 24, 1799.

The chair acquired its color from a contribution of highway line paint from the adjacent State Highway Department lab. It was built in 1927.

During the 1920’s & early 1930’s, so many arrests and convictions were made by dry agents that the Allegany County Jail couldn’t hold them all.

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