Keywords: Speakeasies
Item 22788
Hotel Turn Inn, Hermon, ca. 1955
Contributed by: Hermon Historical Society Date: circa 1955 Location: Hermon Media: Print from slide
Exhibit
Prohibition in Maine in the 1920s
Federal Prohibition took hold of America in 1920 with the passing of the Volstead Act that banned the sale and consumption of all alcohol in the US. However, Maine had the Temperance movement long before anyone was prohibited from taking part in one of America's most popular past times. Starting in 1851, the struggles between the "drys" and the "wets" of Maine lasted for 82 years, a period of time that was everything but dry and rife with nothing but illegal activity.
