Carry A. Nation Home
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member YoSam.
N 37° 16.530 W 098° 34.926
14S E 537048 N 4125517
Where the meetings started and where the idea began, it started with "illegal" saloons, and grew from there. She did not begin using her hatchet until Wichita, some six months into the campaign.
Waymark Code: WM8Y84
Location: Kansas, United States
Date Posted: 05/30/2010
Published By:Groundspeak Regular Member gparkes
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Marker Placed By: Woman's Kansas Day Club
Location of Marker: 211 W. Fowler St. (US-160), Carry Nation Home, Medicine Lodge
Marker is on a boulder in the front yard of Mrs. Nation's Home
24 miles south of here in Kiowa, Kansas, she began the assaults, against illegal saloons. Then it grew.
She used full bottle of whiskey and pool balls as weapons.

Marker Name: Mrs. Carry A. Nation

Marker Type: Other (Please identify in marker text)

Marker text:
This Marks the home in Medicine Lodge of MRS. CARRY A. NATION Who did out standing work as a temperance crusader, in Kansas. Born Nov. 25, 1846 ~ Died June 9, 1911

Marker Location: Barber

Name of agency setting marker: Other (Please identify in marker text)

Year Marker Placed: Not listed

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