This recently unearthed cavity in the grandstands at North Wilkesboro is interesting, but we’re not so sure about how involved it was with moonshining.
From 1947 to the mid-Nineties, North Wilkesboro was one of stock car racing's classic venues. It fell in popularity as NASCAR grew into a national phenomenon and eventually closed down entirely for more than two decades, but a campaign led by Dale Earnhardt Jr. led to a grand re-opening and a non-points NASCAR Cup Series race at the track last year.
As Speedway Motorsport executive Steve Swift notes in a press release, track officials did not find a still in the cave and could not find any way in or out of the around 700 square-foot space. If the cavity was used to distill and move moonshine, the tracks to actually do that were sealed in concrete, and any evidence of the operation was destroyed.Whether or not the North Wilkesboro track ever contained a moonshine operation, the region of North Carolina has a long history with the practice.
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