Editing Westerville, Ohio (section)

==="Dry Capital of the World"===
An 1859 town ordinance prohibited sales of alcohol in Westerville.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.westerville.org/Portals/0/Ordinance%20Listing.pdf |title=City of Westerville, Ohio Ordinance List |access-date=2008-09-05 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081001171522/http://www.westerville.org/Portals/0/Ordinance%20Listing.pdf |archive-date=October 1, 2008 }}</ref> By the 1870s, a burgeoning conflict between pro- and anti-[[temperance movement|temperance]] forces boiled over into the so-called "Westerville Whiskey Wars". Twice, in 1875 and 1879, businessman Henry Corbin opened a [[Bar (establishment)|saloon]] in Westerville, and each time the townspeople blew up his establishment with gunpowder. Westerville's reputation for temperance was so significant that in 1909 the [[Anti-Saloon League]] moved its national headquarters from [[Washington, D.C.]] to Westerville. The League, at the forefront of the [[Prohibition in the United States|Prohibition movement]], gained its greatest triumph when the [[Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution]] was ratified in 1919. The League printed so many leaflets in support of temperance and prohibition&mdash;over 40 tons of mail per month&mdash;that Westerville, by then known as "The Dry Capital of the World", was the smallest town in the nation to have a first class post office. The League's Westerville headquarters was given to the [[Anti-Saloon League Museum|Westerville Public Library]] in 1973 and now serves as a museum attached to the library.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.westervillelibrary.org/about_us/index.html |title=Westerville Public Library, About Us: Our History |access-date=2008-09-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080607185707/http://www.westervillelibrary.org/about_us/index.html |archive-date=2008-06-07 |url-status=live }}</ref> After Prohibition ended, Westerville remained dry for most of the twentieth century.<ref name="thisweeknews.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.thisweeknews.com/live/contentbe/EPIC_shim.php?story=sites/thisweeknews/121406/Westerville/News/121406-News-279244.html |title= ThisWeek Community Newspapers &#124; ThisWeek Community Newspapers|website=www.thisweeknews.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110809013208/http://www.thisweeknews.com/live/contentbe/EPIC_shim.php?story=sites%2Fthisweeknews%2F121406%2FWesterville%2FNews%2F121406-News-279244.html |archive-date=August 9, 2011}}</ref>