Revenue men and sheriffs with moonshine stills confiscated in a raid, at the Boyd County courthouse in Catlettsburg, circa 1928. Photo contributed to An Ohio River Portrait Collection by Harry Boone Nicholson Sr. KHS Collections.
By a joint ballot of 94-17, the Kentucky General Assembly on January 14, 1918, ratified the Eighteenth Amendment, ending a long, divisive fight over prohibition. Ironically, a state known as the home of bourbon became the first “wet” state to ratify the amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Thousands of jobs were lost as a result and tax revenues declined. The Eighteenth Amendment was repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment in 1933.
Revenue men and sheriffs with moonshine stills confiscated in a raid, at the Boyd County courthouse in Catlettsburg, circa 1928. Photo contributed to An Ohio River Portrait Collection by Harry Boone Nicholson Sr. KHS Collections.
