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I thought Topsfield and/or Rockport were or are dry. Rockport had something like you could BYOB if you wanted.

An episode of History Channel’s How the States Got Their Shapes showed a restaruant/bar on the Georgia/Tenn. line.
There was a bit of a city/state boundary line dispute. As it is now, booze can be served in one side of the place but not the other since the other town is “dry” and if the boundary
dispute is settled in favor of one particular state the whole
place may go dry.

Wikipedia for Rockport:
>>Except for a period in the 1930s the town remained one of 15 Massachusetts dry towns. The town did remain dry for many years until recently, when it was voted that alcohol could be served at restaurants, but liquor stores are still illegal.


79 posted on 03/24/2012 12:49:02 PM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: raccoonradio
Topsfield went wet in 2004, and sold the first bottle of wine in 2007 (I wonder about that delay).

Some towns like Lincoln and Carlisle, Weston and Westwood, may be effectively dry, but don't advertise the fact. It may be a matter more of not giving out liquor licenses than of outright banning the sale of liquors. Those are the towns that use control of liquor licenses as zoning regulations to keep out the "riff raff."

80 posted on 03/24/2012 1:10:41 PM PDT by x
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