How do you get into The Winchester speakeasy?
We have not confirmed it. The Winchester speakeasy 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: Sidecar, Boulevardier, and Vieux Carré are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where The Winchester speakeasy sits
Our record places The Winchester speakeasy in Dorchester County, South Carolina, in the South Atlantic of the United States. The source data carries coordinates and a county or region but no municipality, which usually means an address outside an incorporated city, or a record that was never given one. The map pin is the reliable part.
South Carolina holds 17 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our South Carolina speakeasy guide.
If you know which town The Winchester speakeasy is in, tell us and we will place it properly.
Prohibition in South Carolina
South Carolina did not wait for the federal government. Statewide prohibition took effect here in 1915, five 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, South Carolina already had an established illegal trade and the habits that went with it.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in South Carolina.
What the newspapers recorded in South Carolina
Searching the Library of Congress run of South Carolina newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from South Carolina:
- The Union daily times, August 9, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Abbeville press and banner, October 21, 1921 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The county record, April 20, 1922 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Bamberg herald, May 18, 1922 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
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What we have confirmed
For The Winchester speakeasy we hold social accounts. We do not yet hold street address, telephone number, official website, opening hours, a published drinks list, an online booking link, or a listed-building record.
It is in the directory because its own name calls it a speakeasy.
Overture Maps carries this venue; OpenStreetMap has no matching record.
The source data classifies the premises as a bar.