. History of Mecklenburg County and the city of Charlotte : from 1740 to 1903. but there was such a duty on all those whokept taverns, ordinaries, and places of amusement. But there was a reason for the existence of a distillery onalmost every farm during the first period of our history,which, leaving out of all consideration other reasons, fullyaccounts for the phenomenon, viz: the distance people weresituated from markets for their simple products of corn, ryeand fruit. It was much more convenient to market the sur-plus products in liquid form than in bulk, and the returnswere larger and sur
. History of Mecklenburg County and the city of Charlotte : from 1740 to 1903. but there was such a duty on all those whokept taverns, ordinaries, and places of amusement. But there was a reason for the existence of a distillery onalmost every farm during the first period of our history,which, leaving out of all consideration other reasons, fullyaccounts for the phenomenon, viz: the distance people weresituated from markets for their simple products of corn, ryeand fruit. It was much more convenient to market the sur-plus products in liquid form than in bulk, and the returnswere larger and surer. No picture of the social life of the first period of our his-tory would be complete without some reference to the tav-erns which were kept in all parts of the country from the ear-liest days of its history. These institutions sprang up alongall the public roads, and in the town of Charlotte after number of persons always passing through this sectionto the South must have been considerable, even as early as1760. The tavern was a place where such travelers could.
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