Texas Rangers find moonshine stills near Mexia during Prohibition.

Photo Courtesy Freddie Pryor

Texas Rangers with illegal moonshine stills found near Mexia. Freddie Pryor found this undated photo among his grandmother’s things after she died. Most likely taken from 1920 to 1933, during Prohibition. Somebody was making some white lightnin’!

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