Editor’s Note: As Lexington celebrates the 250th anniversary of its founding, the Herald-Leader and kentucky.com each day throughout 2025 will share interesting facts about our hometown.

Alcoholism still exists, and may even be increasing, as women begin to drink in the speakeasies that replace the male-only saloon. Despite the growing discontent with Prohibition and its ...

The PROHIBITION AMENDMENT, outlawing the manufacture, transport, and sale of alcoholic beverages, was enforced in Ohio 27 May 1919-23 Dec. 1933—nearly 8 months longer than the 18th Amendment to the ...

Prohibition’s start in 1920 coincided with a major expansion of the Ku Klux Klan, which supported the ban on alcohol as it waged its anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic and racist activities.

George Cassiday sold liquor to politicians between 1920 and 1930 during Prohibition. In 1930, he wrote a series of Washington Post articles about his operation.

Before the 18th Amendment was adopted the Drys were on the sensational side of the Prohibition argument. Effectively they dramatized the evils of liquor, exhibited homes broken, lives wrecked by ...

“Prohibition failed miserably in Troy,” said Kathy Sheehan, the historian for Troy and Rensselaer County. The city’s big breweries like Fitzgerald Brothers Brewing Company managed to survive ...

After one parliamentary false start that bogged down after 45 minutes ... carrying the Senate’s $24,000,000 prohibition enforcement amendment, into a basement room at the Capitol.

The PROHIBITION PARTY in Cleveland was organized in 1869 when local TEMPERANCE Republicans led by Geo. P. Burwell nominated a slate of candidates for the Mar. 1869 municipal elections, including Grove ...

Jan. 17, 1920: Put down your drinks, Kentucky: Prohibition begins. According to the Lexington Leader, it was a day of mixed blessing with the “drys” celebrating while the “wets” cried in ...