Liberty Pole Spirits

In 1791, Washington County, Pennsylvania, was a heavily wooded wilderness at the headwaters of the Ohio River. Many Scotch-Irish veterans of the Revolutionary War had returned to the area and the rocky farms that they had established before the War. They struggled against the weather and disease, and being far from the East Coast, enjoyed few luxuries. But through the rugged ingenuity of those brave Colonists, one of the first American Industries was born. Whiskey. Years later, the stories of their defiance against the Federal Excise Tax on distilled spirits (AKA The Whiskey Rebellion) are preserved in museums, churches and cemeteries around the county. Now, heritage grain once again grows in the same soil they so dearly loved, travels down the paved paths upon which they drove the whiskey-laden mule trains, and arrives at a new Mingo Creek Meetinghouse where it is distilled and enjoyed by the next generation of the Mingo Creek Society.