Saturday marked the last day of the 2025 Whiskey Rebellion Festival in Washington County. It is held in the area of the ...

What separated the Pennsylvania farmers brewing a rebellion over a pint at the Black Bear Tavern from the actors reenacting their arguments on Main Street in Washington Saturday? Looking at the ...

Tickets go on sale today, Monday, Nov. 11, for LancasterHistory’s next History Happy Hour, during which those attending can have a glass of whiskey while hearing about Lancaster’s connection to ...

The American whiskey industry is in the middle of a bit of a correction. Before Prohibition, there were approximately 3,000 operational whisky distilleries in the country.

The Whiskey Rebellion will be the topic of conversation Sept. 16, when Brady Crytzer, author of "The Whiskey Rebellion: A Distilled History of an American Crisis," will be at the Methodist Church ...

Findley, who lived in Latrobe, petitioned the new government to repeal the 1791 whiskey tax, hoping to avoid violence against those charged with collecting it from farmers. By November 1794, things ...

On Christmas Day 1794, an estimated 20,000 citizens lined the streets of Philadelphia to gawp and jeer as a score of bedraggled and shivering prisoners shuffled past under military escort. In the ...

The Whiskey Rebellion of 1794, and Lancaster's connection to it, are the subject of the next LancasterHistory History Happy Hour Dec. 5 at Proof Lancaster.

By November 1794, things had escalated to the point that then-President George Washington mustered troops and marched them to Pennsylvania to put down the rebellion.

Those who don’t learn history are doomed to repeat it,” said philosopher George Santayana, a sentiment that remains deeply ...

The whiskey resurgence didn't really start until the beginning of this century when the number went from 13 to 49. However, from 2000 to 2022, according to data compiled by the Whisky Aardvark ...