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Fond du Lac, Wisconsin: Carry Nation Smashed Here

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Address:
2 W. Division St., Fond du Lac, WI
Directions:
Downtown, on the outside wall of JD Finnagans, on the northwest corner of Main and Division Sts.
Phone:
920-922-5500
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Carry Nation Smashed Here

Carry hated booze, and when she walked into this saloon she smashed one patron's whiskey bottle with a hatchet. A plaque outside recalls the deed for posterity.

Roadsideamerica.com Report... [11/30/2008]

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Carry Nation sign.

Carry Nation Smashed Here

I didn't go in since it was closed, but there is a very easy-to-see sign outside.

[Becky, 06/19/2016]

Carry Nation, a crusader for Prohibition, was famous for walking into bars and smashing them with her hatchet.


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