Titus County Alcoholic Beverages
Regardless of your personal feeling on the subject, both legal and illegal alcoholic beverages have always been part of Titus County's history. While passionate arguments can be made either for or against beer and liquor based on morality and economics, depending on your point of view, either way the federal, state, and local government uses alcoholic beverage manufacture and sales to generate a tremendous amount of annual revenue for their coffers.
Liquor and beer have been made and sold in Titus County since well before it became a county in 1845. Many people who settled Titus County in the early to mid 1800s emigrated here from Tennessee, Alabama, Kentucky, and Georgia, where making whiskey was common, and quite a few brought their "family recipe" with them. Titus County was "wet" until 1902, and Mt. Pleasant and other Titus County towns had open saloons.
Titus County has voted alcohol sales in and out at different times, and moonshiners and bootleggers have operated here from before the county was established to the present day. Heck, one of our baseball teams and a popular local band were named "the Moonshiners" many years ago.
You may think it strange to put the alcohol topic under law enforcement, but beer has been sold here while the county was dry, and moonshine has always been illegal.
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This beer store is thought to have been located in the Cason community in the 1930s during the second time when beer sales were legal in Titus County.
