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Westerville's reputation for temperance was so significant that in 1909 the Anti-Saloon League moved its national headquarters from Washington, D.C. to Westerville. The League, at the forefront of the Prohibition movement , gained its greatest triumph when the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified in 1919.
Westerville (Ohio) Public Library. Leaders: Ernest Cherrington. Westerville Public Library website. 1923 News on the State of Worldwide Prohibition. World prohibition. (2012). Alcohol prohibition in the USA. Ian Tyrrell. (2010, November 15). Evered, E. (2022, January 27). Full article: Anti-alcoholism, Turkish and American non-state actors ...
The Anti-Saloon League, now known as the American Council on Addiction and Alcohol Problems, is an organization of the temperance movement in the United States. [1]Founded in 1893 in Oberlin, Ohio, it was a key component of the Progressive Era, and was strongest in the South and rural North, drawing support from Protestant ministers and their congregations, especially Methodists, Baptists ...
Wayne Bidwell Wheeler (November 10, 1869 – September 5, 1927) was an American attorney and longtime leader of the Anti-Saloon League.The leading advocate of the prohibitionist movement in the late 1800s and early 1900s, he played a major role in the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which outlawed the manufacture, distribution, and sale of alcoholic ...
The city of Westerville, Ohio, was dry for more than a century. Once the home of the Anti-Saloon League and called the "dry capital of the world", the first legal drink in recent times was served in 2006. The village of Bethel in Clermont County has been dry since the repeal of prohibition. Recently, through use of the single precinct vote ...
Westerville City Council will have its first discussion at 7 p.m. Tuesday at City All. Township officials have already discussed the merger plans with some residents. A second meeting will be 6:30 ...
The Temperance Row Historic District is a historic district in Westerville, Ohio.Westerville became the headquarters of the Anti-Saloon League of America (ASLA) in 1909. In the same year, the 11-acre (45,000 m 2) tract of land that would become Temperance Row was purchased by Purley Baker, general superintendent of the ASLA.
A plan to merge Westerville and Delaware County's Harlem Township has ended, following a decision by township officials Wednesday night amid backlash from residents opposed to a possible tax hike ...