In 1920, a nationwide Prohibition took effect. This was the greatest thing that could have happened for the moonshiners. Suddenly, there was no legal alcohol available and the demand for illegal spirits skyrocketed.
The illegal liquor only cost about 50 to 75 cents per gallon, the moonshiners would turn around and sell it for up to $6 a gallon.
In November 1935 Deputies A.B. Price and Wade Rawlinson arrested a white man in Dentsville and charged him with manufacturing liquor. The deputies confiscated 880 gallons of mash. One still had 700 gallons and the other still 180 gallons.
Saloons began springing up in order to satisfy the public's desire to drink during prohibition, these establishments were called speakeasies, a place where, during the Prohibition, alcoholic was sold illegally and consumed in secret.
In a rural area such as Dentsville there may have been a couple places for moonshiners to sell their liquor but the more serious moonshine maker would transport the liquor to bigger cities. The majority of people who made moonshine in Dentsville made it for their own personal use and to share with friends.
There were many instances where members of the Dentsville community were involved in the making of illegal liquor, as there were instances when two brothers (age 11 and 15) living in Dentsville were arrested for possessing moonshine.
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