January 1, 1910
Tennessee
Shut down lawful in-state production for sale roughly a decade before national Prohibition and created the statutory break central to Tennessee whiskey’s twentieth-century discontinuity.
Verified independently in the full-resolution original Senate bill and the complete 1911 Motlow opinion. The act prohibited manufacture for sale; it did not use the broader wording later adopted in 1923 for whiskey and brandy manufacture regardless of sale.
Tennessee’s Chapter 10 ban on manufacturing intoxicating liquor for sale became effective, subject to a narrow exception for at least 188-proof alcohol made for specified nonbeverage purposes.
Production shutdown
Chapter 10 of the Acts of 1909 became effective January 1, 1910. It prohibited manufacturing vinous, spirituous, and malt intoxicating liquors in Tennessee for purposes of sale.
Exception and precision
The final act excepted alcohol of at least 188 proof for chemical, pharmaceutical, medical, and bacteriological purposes. The law’s exact “for purposes of sale” wording matters and should not be paraphrased as a ban on every conceivable personal manufacture.