Hayner Distillery Museum at Troy-Hayner Cultural Center

The Hayner Distillery Museum Permanent Exhibition

The Troy-Hayner Cultural Center houses the premier United States collection of Hayner Distillery artifacts and ephemera. The collection includes over 100 bottles and jugs spanning more than 56 years of manufacturing with dozens of varieties of spirits, products and marketing items. In 1866 Lewis Hayner built a distillery on Water Street in Troy, Ohio and founded “Lewis Hayner, Distiller, Pure Copper Distilled Rye and Bourbon Whiskies.” Hayner Distillery expanded with the country’s industrial revolution and fell away with the threat of impending prohibition. The distillery on Water Street was shut down in 1920. The Hayner Distillery Company’s history coincides with and paints a picture of the pre-prohibition era in the history of America.