Use TSLA for the 1909 relocation and 1937 return; use United States v. Motlow for the June 26, 1923 corporate and whiskey-certificate transfer.
Tennessee's 1909 manufacture ban ended legal in-state distilling years before national Prohibition and forced firm-level continuity choices. In the documented Jack Daniel case, operations moved to St. Louis and Birmingham, the St. Louis corporation and warehouse certificates changed hands in 1923, and distilling resumed in Lynchburg after Tennessee repealed the ban in 1937.
The named Jack Daniel mechanisms were reverified on 2026-09-02 after complete preservation of the Tennessee archive exhibit, including all 19 full-resolution images. The paired judicial-record evidence remains independently linked.
This claim is limited to documented institutional mechanisms. It does not assert continuous ownership, liquid, recipe, personnel, or uninterrupted production at Lynchburg. It does not claim Tennessee lost more whiskey history than peer states.
The paired official archive and primary judicial record show relocation, separate inventories, and a corporate transfer. Together they support a firm-level continuity model rather than an unbroken-production model.
Narrowed to documented institutional mechanisms. Use exact Claims for statutory dates. The Tennessee archive preservation gap is closed; comparative multi-firm interpretation would still require additional company-specific records.