Recall LaGrange’s Distillery Raid on the Mountain
The reenactment of a law enforcement raid on a moonshine still will take place the first Saturday in May at the LaGrange College Site Park located in Leighton. Set for May 4, 2024, Recall LaGrange’s Distillery Raid on the Mountain offers a day of living history events, Civil War displays and demonstrations, arts and crafts, musical entertainment and more.
The event commemorates the 194th anniversary of the LaGrange College and Military Institute, Alabama’s first college. Recall LaGrange’s Distillery Raid on the Mountain features a period correct living history centering on a Prohibition Era raid on a suspected moonshine still. A group of lawmen will descend on the pioneer village of LaGrange and will engage in a brief skirmish with the locals. The skirmish is slated for 2 p.m. While the highlight is the prohibition era raid on a moonshine still, the day-long event offers other important historical accounts, Civil War collections and fun activities for the family.
There will be art/crafts demonstrations, live music, a bake sale, food trucks and displays of antiques and fragments of period moonshine stills. The observatory, featuring a new telescope, and pioneer and log buildings located in the park will be open for tours, living history presentations will be ongoing and there will be tours of Dawson Distillery located near the park during the festival. Plus, there will be wagon rides to historic LaGrange Cemetery.
Admission is free.
When:
Saturday, May 4, 2024
10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Where:
LaGrange College
1492 LaGrange College Road
Leighton, AL 35646
For additional information:
Visit Tennessee Valley Tourism.
