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Fighting the Demon Drink in Fredonia: The Women’s Temperance Crusade

By Jacqueline Trace - January 28, 2015

Not everyone in Western New York in the late 1800s was a fan of the drink. Fredonia’s Women’s Temperance Union took a stand against alcohol in December 1873, successfully closing many drinking establishments and laying the roots for the national W.C.T.U..

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