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The passage connects Nashville, Chattanooga, Robertson County, and Memphis barrel production to federal market reconstruction.
Tennessee had a substantial cooperage and stave industry before Repeal. Federal packaging and straight-whiskey rules, including the use of new charred oak, restored barrel demand and tied revived American production to a wider manufacturing network and the later supply of used barrels abroad.
PDF sheet 387; displayed ebook page 366
PDF sheet 382; displayed ebook page 361
Repeal, straight whiskey, and the Tennessee barrel industry
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