Quincy Couple Finds 56 Bottles Of Alcohol Hidden In Home

QUINCY, MA — All North Quincy newcomers Ian Sutherland and Alexa Lee wanted to do was waterproof the basement of the Williams Street home when they found a hidden stash of alcohol, 56 bottles to be exact.

The apparently long forgotten bottles were discovered July 25 when a contractor realized that there was a false wall between the house's chimney and foundation. Behind it they found 44 beer-style bottles, 10 moonshine jugs, a mason jar with a chunk of something orange floating in the liquid and a bottle of red wine, according to the Patriot Ledger.

The couple believes that the bottles could be from the Prohibition era. But Edward Fitzgerald, Quincy Historical Society’s executive director, said that they can't know for sure when the bottles are from or why they were placed behind a false wall.

Quincy was an early adaptor of prohibition, placing a ban on alcohol in 1880. Quincy residents were allowed to legally drink again in 1933.

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