Ed. Murphy & Company, Distillers, operated a whiskey brokerage at Cheapside and Mill Street for Belle of Anderson County Whiskey during the 1880s. Edward Murphy purchased the Belle of Anderson County Distillery in Lawrenceburg in 1883. He operated the plant until 1912, when it closed.[i] During the 1890s, the firm was succeeded by D. H. Foushee & Company.
[i] Cecil, page 51.
References:
William M. Ambrose, Bottled In Bond under U. S. Government Supervision, Limestone Press, Lexington, 2008.
