Bourbon has been distilled in Kentucky throughout the history of the Commonwealth and has influenced how cities in Kentucky have grown, both physically and economically, over time. Throughout the 1870s until Prohibition, a large boom in the number of distilleries in Kentucky occurred with bourbon barons purchasing small, family-run distilleries and expanding them into a large-scale, booming industry that aimed to answer the demand for bourbon throughout the United States. In the mid-1890s and early 1900s, R.P. Drake owned and operated a distillery and a number of taverns that added a new industry to Madisonville and Hopkins County, bringing in revenue, shaping social practices, and testing the limits of legislation that had been passed to limit the ways in which bourbon could be produced. In this thesis, I analyze the R.P. Drake Distillery and associated artifacts in order to provide new information on how this small-scale, spring-based distillery was able to find success in the bourbon industry. Particular attention will be paid to how R.P. Drake adapted to legislation that placed limitations on his distillation and distribution methods. / A Thesis submitted to the Department of Anthropology in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science. / Spring Semester 2018. / April 3, 2018. / bourbon, distillation, Hopkins County, kentucky, Madisonville, R.P. Drake / Includes bibliographical references. / Rochelle A. Marrinan, Professor Directing Thesis; Tanya M. Peres, Committee Member; Jessi L. Halligan, Committee Member.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_653421 |
| Contributors | Gamblin, Katherine (author), Marrinan, Rochelle A. (professor directing thesis), Peres, Tanya M (committee member), Halligan, Jessi J (committee member), Florida State University (degree granting institution), College of Arts and Sciences (degree granting college), Department of Anthropology (degree granting departmentdgg) |
| Publisher | Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, text, master thesis |
| Format | 1 online resource (64 pages), computer, application/pdf |
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