Jug drop to ring in Winder's New Year

WINDER - Winder will mark the new year by dropping a clay jug from the hanging tower of the old Barrow County Jail.

Barrow County Historical Society members say they are hosting Jug Drop 2009 partly to draw attention to the more colorful parts of the town's history, including its founding as Jug Tavern in the early 1800.

The Barrow County Museum, which now is housed in the old jail, will have an antique moonshine still on loan from the Georgia Mountain Fair to coincide with the Jug Drop.