Greenville hosts Anti-Saloon League meeting, 1915

KETR | By John Mark Dempsey

Published August 25, 2015 at 6:00 AM CDT

Hunt County Historical Commission chairman Carol Taylor says Greenville hosted a meeting of the Texas Anti-Saloon League in 1915, as the prohibition movement was reaching its zenith. Carol says legend has it that the famous temperance crusader Carrie Nation came to Greenville to smash up a saloon.

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