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The Geography of Illegal Distillery Sites in the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area

The Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area (National Area) was created by an act of Congress in 1974. It consists of 125,000 acres of forest and cliffline resources in the Upper Cumberland Plateau (UCP) of Tennessee and Kentucky, surrounding the Big South Fork of the Cumberland River. Since the fall of 2005, park rangers and university contractors have been engaged in relocating and documenting the condition of archaeological sites in the National Area. The project, known as the Archaeological Site Condition Assessment Project (CAP), has provided an abundance of information concerning the numerous (>150) historic period distillery sites in the Big South Fork NRRA. This research report is the culmination of efforts to document that vanishing activity and is based on that earlier work (Smith and Des Jean 2007) as well as collected oral histories and interviews.

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Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area, Code: BISO
Park History Division, Code: PHD

Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area
Latitude: 36.3837394714355, Longitude: -84.6743087768555

Legacy NPS Focus Record ID : 449968

http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/biso/distillery.pdf

01/01/2010

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Smith, Timothy J. II

Des Jean, Tom

Kelly Spradley-Kurowski

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