Looking back in Springfield: No liquor in Clark County

Ohio’s Rose Laws, passed in 1908, let counties vote individually about allowing alcohol sales. Clark County was one of thirty-five to go dry by 1909. PHOTO COURTESY OF THE CLARK COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY

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Ohio’s Rose Laws, passed in 1908, let counties vote individually about allowing alcohol sales. Clark County was one of thirty-five to go dry by 1909. PHOTO COURTESY OF THE CLARK COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY

Ohio’s Rose Laws, passed in 1908, let counties vote individually about allowing alcohol sales.

Clark County was one of thirty-five to go dry by 1909, which meant saloons across the county shuttered their doors.