How do you get into The Bathtub Gin?
We have not confirmed it. The Bathtub Gin is in the directory because it period concealment name, 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 Bathtub Gin sits
The Bathtub Gin is in Mooresville, North Carolina, in Iredell County, in the South Atlantic of the United States.
Our directory currently lists two speakeasies and hidden bars in Mooresville — too few for a city guide of its own yet, so they sit on the North Carolina page until there are more.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to The Bathtub Gin are The Hidden Bin, about 8.1 km away.
North Carolina holds 42 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our North Carolina speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in North Carolina
North Carolina did not wait for the federal government. Statewide prohibition took effect here in 1909, eleven years before the Eighteenth Amendment came into force nationally on 17 January 1920. By the time the Volstead Act was being enforced across the country, North Carolina already had an established illegal trade and the habits that went with it.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in North Carolina.
What the newspapers recorded in North Carolina
Searching the Library of Congress run of North Carolina newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from North Carolina:
- Roanoke Rapids herald, September 30, 1921 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The independent, June 2, 1922 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The independent, May 8, 1925 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The independent, March 25, 1927 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach The Bathtub Gin by phone on (704) 658-0958 and through its own website.
The address is 166 N Main St, Mooresville, NC 28115. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For The Bathtub Gin we hold street address, telephone number, and official website. We do not yet hold social accounts, opening hours, a published drinks list, an online booking link, or a listed-building record.
It is in the directory because its own name refers to bathtub gin.
Overture Maps carries this venue; OpenStreetMap has no matching record.
The source data classifies the premises as a bar.