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Love local history? I've spent a lifetime collecting information about the past in Northern Virginia. My focus is the everyday life of those who were here before. Their struggles and triumphs shaped the future. And their legacy to us is lessons we can learn from.

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Sep 17, 2020
9 min

Moonshine and Murder In Loudoun

Umbaugh & Lambert With Confiscated Moonshine

Sep 7, 2020
7 min

Moonshine Leads to Murder

There were other more serious dangers associated with moonshine than being caught by the law. In 1923 there was a still operating on one...

Sep 3, 2020
6 min

Moonshine:

A Dangerous, But Lucrative Business The eighteenth amendment to the U.S. Constitution went into effect on January 19,1920, instituting a...

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