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Making Charcoal at Jack Daniel Distillery, Lynchburg, Tennessee

Subjects
Breweries & DistilleriesWorkers & Occupations
Card type
Chrome
Date
c. 1945 (Linen)
Front of Making Charcoal at Jack Daniel Distillery, Lynchburg, Tennessee, Dearborn Heights, MI, USA, c. 1945 chrome postcard
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Back of Making Charcoal at Jack Daniel Distillery, Lynchburg, Tennessee, Dearborn Heights, MI, USA, c. 1945 chrome postcard
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About this subject

A man in a white shirt and dark trousers plays a hose on a blazing stack of lumber in a sawmill yard, smoke and orange flame rising. Around him are other tall stacks of drying boards, a wheelbarrow, scattered planks, and mill buildings with a wooded hillside behind.

Postcard Details

Message · English, in pen

Hello all: We here at this Distillery and going for a tour. We went to Onyx Cave yesterday. See you in 10 days Love Grandma & Granddaddy

MAKING CHARCOAL AT JACK DANIEL'S The charcoal we use to gentle our whiskey is burned in the open air. Some folks say charcoal can't be made this way. All we know is we've been making it in the open air since the day Mr. Jack started. Jack Daniel Distillery Lynchburg (Pop. 361), Tennessee POST CARD
PostmarkedLynchburg, TN
Stamp
Addressed to
Mark Elmore

25054 Stanford, Dearborn Heights, MI 48124

Postcard record

PostmarkedLynchburg, TN
ConditionGood
Place addressed25054 Stanford, Dearborn Heights, MI
Place mentionedLynchburg, TN
Stamp6c Dwight D. Eisenhower, blue
NotesColor photo postcard, no white border, no printed text on front; slight color shift/fading typical of mid-century chrome stock. Postmark: LYNCHBURG TN DEC 8 (year illegible). Divided-back chrome-era glossy color photo card; 6c Eisenhower stamp; no white border; no stamp-box marks.

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Making Charcoal at Jack Daniel Distillery, Lynchburg, Tennessee, postcard, c. 1945. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/making-charcoal-at-jack-daniel-distillery-lynchburg-tennesse. Accessed October 5, 2026.