How do you get into The Gin Mill?
We have not confirmed it. The Gin Mill is in the directory because it calls itself a speakeasy, and that is the whole of what we can stand behind about its door.
Drinks of the era
We have not seen this venue’s own list, so what follows is the period rather than the bar: Bee’s Knees, Southside, and Last Word are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where The Gin Mill sits
The Gin Mill is in Frostburg, Maryland, in Allegany County, in the Mid-Atlantic of the United States.
This is currently the only verified hidden bar our directory lists in Frostburg. If you know another, tell us.
Maryland holds nine listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Maryland speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Maryland
Maryland came under national prohibition on 17 January 1920, when the Eighteenth Amendment took effect and the Volstead Act defined an intoxicating beverage as anything above one half of one per cent alcohol — a threshold strict enough to close breweries that had expected to survive.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in Maryland.
What the newspapers recorded in Maryland
Searching the Library of Congress run of Maryland newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Maryland:
- Maryland independent, January 16, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Evening capital and Maryland gazette, June 3, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Democratic advocate, October 29, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Maryland independent, April 30, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach The Gin Mill by phone on (301) 689-6511, through its own website, and on Facebook.
The address is 11 W Main St, Frostburg, MD 21532. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For The Gin Mill we hold street address, telephone number, official website, and social accounts. We do not yet hold opening hours, a published drinks list, an online booking link, or a listed-building record.
It is in the directory because the description in the source data describes it as a speakeasy.
Overture Maps carries this venue; OpenStreetMap has no matching record.
The source data classifies the premises as a bar.