June 26, 2009

Clifton Forge ABC store is still at original location  06/26/09 12:01 AM

CLIFTON FORGE Afifth of Bacardi rum sold for $3.90 in 1934 when the Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control formed on the heels of the end of Prohibition. Today the same bottle sells for $15.90—that’s a price increase of more than 300 percent over the past 75 years. Indeed, much has changed in the Alleghany Highlands community of Clifton Forge over the decades.

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