Was a Prohibition-era (1920-1933) term/place. Referring to a line of ships loaded with liquor anchored beyond the maritime limit of the United States. These ships taunted the Eighteenth Amendment’s prohibition on alcohol. The bootleggers carried the Rum and other liquors from the Islands in the Caribbean to Rum Row. 12 miles out off the shores of New Jersey, where it was sold to Rum Runners in their various vessels. All the while attempting to dodge or outrun the Coast Guard on the way back to the docks