Three-mile laws

Three-mile laws

Three-mile laws refer to the laws passed during the temperance movement in many southern and mid-western states during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These laws were normally passed at the local or county level, but some laws were passed by state governments. The laws required all liquor stores, bars, and other liquor establishments to be built at least three miles away from a church or a school. Some remote counties still enact the three-miles laws today.

See " Arkansas Sunday Laws in the nineteenth century / by Jillian Hartley .Publisher: 2001.Description: ii, 90 leaves ; 28 cm.Notes: Thesis (M.A.)--Arkansas State University, 2001. Includes bibliographical references (p. 75-90)."


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