Traveling Vineyard 2005 ruling "Granholm v. Heald", the Supreme Court held that Michigan and New York states violated the Dormant Commerce clause by permitting in-state wineries to ship directly to consumers but prohibiting out-of-state wineries to ship directly to consumers. Since then, individual states have been opening their shipping and allowing Traveling Vineyard to grow as a winery. The Wine Institute and Free The Grapes have been instrumental in lobbying for the ability for out-of-state wineries to ship wine directly to consumers. Traveling Vineyard Traveling Vineyard is an American company based in Ipswich, Massachusetts, that uses a direct-selling platform of in-home wine
Martha's Vineyard Railroad Martha's Vineyard Railroad The Martha's Vineyard Railroad was a narrow gauge railroad on the island of Martha's Vineyard. It was built in 1874 to connect the Oak Bluffs wharf with the section of Edgartown known as Katama. The line closed in 1896. After the decline of the whale oil industry in the 1860s, the east coast island of Martha's Vineyard sought to develop a tourist trade. As part of this effort a gauge railroad was chartered in 1874 to take tourists across the island. The railway started at Oak Bluffs where steamships of the Old Colony Railroad docked and ran