Kinston Claims Moonshiners Have to Drive to Stills in Duplin and Craven Counties, Oct. 24, 1925

Kinston, October 23—“Long-distance” moonshiners are operating stills in this section, federal sleuths today said. They have discovered two plants in Duplin and Craven counties, whose owners are believed to be men residing many miles away. Good roads and automobiles make this kind of business possible,” the revenuers said.

Persons in the liquor business, to throw off suspicion establish distilleries in pocosins scores of miles from their homes, usually in up-country cities, and make “flying trips” to and from them, according to the federal agents. The operator of a plant may be a hired man or the owner himself. It is the last resort of the moonshiner in the section, the prohibition men believe.

The shiners have been hounded relentlessly all the year, and few of the illicit enterprises are left in this part of North Carolina.

From page 2 of The Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, October 24, 1925. Pocosins are unique freshwater evergreen shrub wetlands in the southern coastal plains of North Carolina. They are typically located in road, low-lying basins that do not drain well.

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