Reigler, Susan. Kentucky Bourbon Country: The Essential Travel Guide. 2nd ed. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2016.
The guide notes that six companies received federal authority to sell medicinal spirits during Prohibition, four of them associated with Louisville-area whiskey businesses and their warehouses.
Susan Reigler, Kentucky Bourbon Country: The Essential Travel Guide, 2nd ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2016), PDF sheets 44–45.
Susan Reigler, Kentucky Bourbon Country: The Essential Travel Guide, 2nd ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2016), PDF sheets 44–45.
PDF sheet 45
PDF sheet 44
Reigler, Kentucky Bourbon Country, 2nd ed., PDF sheets 44–45.
Chapter 2 — Prohibition survival in Louisville
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Source and locator
Susan Reigler, Kentucky Bourbon Country: The Essential Travel Guide, 2nd ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2016), PDF sheets 44–45.
Supported scope
The guide notes that six companies received federal authority to sell medicinal spirits during Prohibition, four of them associated with Louisville-area whiskey businesses and their warehouses.
Source audit qualification
PDF44–45 names Brown-Forman, Frankfort Distilleries, James Thompson & Bro./Glenmore and A. Ph. Stitzel as the four Louisville companies, with two others in New York. The passage distinguishes authority to sell from a later1928production permission. Do not turn six-company shorthand into six continuously operating distilleries or validated permit history.
Evidence and usage
06 — Medicinal-whiskey licenses concentrated survival during Prohibition provides the underlying evidence. Reigler, Susan. Kentucky Bourbon Country: The Essential Travel Guide. 2nd ed. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2016. Ready means the reference is usable for the stated scope, not that the historical or current-operating claims are independently validated or published in course content.