Christmas on Vinegar Hill

Email:  mpcovh@gmail.com

P. O. Box 33

Mt. Pulaski, IL  62548

Christmas on Vinegar Hill is held annually the weekend before Thanksgiving with all locations open on Saturday and limited locations open on Sunday. 

The 2012 event will be:

Saturday, November 17 . . .   8 am – 5 pm

   Sunday, November 18  . . . Noon – 4 pm

“Christmas on Vinegar Hill” meetings

 are held at Mt. Pulaski Library at 7 pm

September 24 – General Meeting
                        
October 22 – Flyers Distributed

The 24th Annual

Christmas on Vinegar Hill

descriptions for each

location will be  posted on

this web site by mid-Sept., 2012

History of “Vinegar Hill”

Prior to the repeal of the eighteenth amendment (prohibition) in 1933,  Mt. Pulaski stayed “wet” longer than the surrounding “dry” towns.  Since Mt. Pulaski had thirteen prosperous saloons and a few bootleggers, the railroads brought customers into town from every direction.  They would come with empty flasks and leave with full ones.  Upon nearing town, the conductor would call out “Vinegar Hill next stop”.  Thus, the town earned the nickname, “Vinegar Hill”.

Mt. Pulaski to Decatur "Booze" Train (high school boys were on the payroll - helping to load and off-load)