Carry A. Nation BiographyThe progress of Prohibition in Missouri. Three maps showing wet and dry counties in Missouri in 1906, 1910, and 1914. A wet county allowed the sale of alcohol; a dry county did not.
Prohibition passed in a few states as early as 1906 but never became law in Missouri. Counties adopted Prohibition one by one, and these maps show “wet” counties as black and “dry” counties as white. By 1910, a year before Carry Nation died, most counties were dry. By September 1914, there were enough dry counties to declare Missouri a dry state.
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