Keywords: Liquor
Item 104684
Men unloading contraband liquor, ca. 1920
Do you know who these people are?
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: circa 1920 Location: Bethel Media: Glass Negative
Item 135725
Firemen in front of City Liquor Agency, Portland, 1886
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1886 Location: Portland Media: photographic print
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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.
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When Europeans arrived in North America and disrupted traditional Native American patterns of life, they also offered other opportunities: trade goods for furs. The fur trade had mixed results for the Wabanaki.
Site Page
Rum, Riot, and Reform - 1865 to 1919: The Drys Gain New Adherents and Leaders
"… Civil War and the end of World War I, the anti-liquor cause, now led by both reformers and Republican and Democratic politicians, built a power…"
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Rum, Riot, and Reform - Bootleggers vs. Police
"Building such craft for bootleggers brought a brisk business to Downeast boatyards. Prohibition liquor hiding techniques: Victrola before…"
Story
Vegetarians and Zoonosis
by Avery Yale Kamila
Colds, influenza, tuberculosis, measles, smallpox, plague and COVID-19 group under zoonotic diseases
Story
History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby
This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars