Whiskey Anyone? Traditional Cache
Ctdfloyd: No longer able to maintain
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Abandoned for over a half century, the Whiskey Bonding Barn has begun a new chapter in its life as a first class event and cultural arts center.
The cache is not on the property of the barn, but is nearby. You are looking for a small container with a few trade items. You will need a pen.
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William Thomas Barker (1839-1902), a farmer in Pike County, Georgia, built the whiskey bonding barn circa 1870. An 1898-1899 Georgia Gazetteer lists at least five distilleries in Pike County. Constructed in the late 1800’s soon after the War Between the States, this building most likely served as the local bonding warehouse for those distilleries.
Bonding barns, or warehouses for the storage of whiskey, were established by Congress in 1868 across the whiskey producing region in order to delay the payment of federal excise taxes while the whiskey was aging for up to four years.
Now the Whiskey Bonding Barn is ready for the twenty-first century! Pike Historic Preservation, Inc. purchased and renovated the Barn with an eye toward retaining its architectural integrity and significance as a symbol of the area’s agricultural past. On May 12, 2008, the Barn was listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
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