10 Places in South Carolina the Moonshiners Used to Control

In one South Carolina county the moonshiners did not run from the law. They ran it. These are the ten places where the whiskey men beat the government outright. For a stretch of this state's history, the men who made the illegal whiskey outvoted, outshot, outran, and flat out bought the government sent to stop them. This video counts down ten places in South Carolina the moonshiners used to control, ranked by how completely the law lost, from the back roads that birthed a racing legend to a mountain corner that defied Washington on purpose for a hundred years. We follow the copper stills out of the drowned Jocassee coves, down through the Edgefield ridge and the Greenville revenue wars, into the swamps of the Pee Dee where a still once floated on a raft to stay ahead of the agents. Along the way you will meet an outlaw who killed a federal marshal and became a folk hero, a floating distillery, and a corruption so deep the whole business got dragged in front of the United States Senate. Legend and fact both run thick in this history, and this list is careful to tell you which is which. Where did South Carolina's moonshiners really operate? This is the honest map of it, county by county, drawn from the public record. Whether your own people ran these back roads or you just love the true history the schoolbooks skip, ride it to the swamp at number one. ▶ WATCH NEXT — Exploring South Carolina (Best Towns, Hidden Gems and Places Worth Knowing):    • Exploring South Carolina — Best Towns, Hid...   ▶ SUBSCRIBE:    / @southcarolinauncovered   THE SOUTH CAROLINA REALITY CHECK — the research behind this channel, written down. A 43-page guide plus a cost calculator covering 57 towns. $27, one time: https://scuncovered.gumroad.com/l/sou... One question for you: did your own family ever run these back roads? Tell me below. CHAPTERS 00:00 Where South Carolina's moonshiners beat the law 01:02 How moonshine built a sport and hid in the hills 09:52 The revenue wars 14:14 Industrial stills and a famous outlaw 18:27 The corner that defied Washington for a century 21:33 Number one: revealed 26:05 Which back roads did your family run Historical content drawn from the public record. Locations are real, some footage is illustrative, and nothing here encourages illegal activity. #SouthCarolina #Moonshine #History