Foust Distillery memorabilia is an often sought after collectible especially around York County, PA.

In 1858, William Foust started a distillery in a hollow near Glen Rock, PA that produced the nationally known Springfield Copper Distilled Pure Rye Whiskey. The distillery's success prompts growth of a company town named Foustown on the distillery site, complete with a water fountain. William Foust becomes a man-about-town in Glen Rock, holding many positions of prominence. The distillery topped 3,000 barrels annually in 1907 with some of its product stored in a six-story warehouse. The distillery never recovered from Prohibition. It made headlines and contributed to Glen Rock lore after a Baltimore gangster raided the closed warehouses in 1921. One history noted that the raid netted "almost 300 barrels of the best firewater the Foust family had ever made in the pre-Prohibition days." Law enforcement officials reportedly stopped the raid and recovered some of the loot. The distillery was refitted to produce industrial alcohol during World War II, but the war ended before production started. Today, a 125-foot smokestack built, but never used, for industrial alcohol production is all that is left of the distillery operation. My Grandfather worked there in the early 1900's.