Record #:

15375

Author(s):

Norris, Jeannie Faris

Abstract:

Early July 1935 the first \"legal liquor store\" opened in Wilson. Sixteen of seventeen counties voted for liquor control, with Rockingham County the only one against with a 300 vote majority. Other counties would open their own liquor stores after Wilson included: Pasquotank, Martin, Pitt, Nash, Lenoir, Halifax, Carteret, Onslow, Warren, Wilson, Edgecombe, Vance, Beaufort, New Hanover, Craven, and Greene.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 3 Issue 7, July 1935, p7, il

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