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Jerry Summers: American Temperance University - Harriman, Tn. Monday, April 5, 2021 - by Jerry Summers
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Eighty miles northeast from Chattanooga towards Knoxville in Roane County lies a village known as Harriman. It was incorporated in 1890 as a community created out of the temperance movement against the manufacture and consumption of the devil rum (alcohol) which became active in the 1870’s.
From the beginning Harriman was to be a major center of the nationwide effort of the anti-alcohol group to permanently outlaw drinking alcohol in America. Harriman was known as the “Prohibition City of the Nation.” In the title to each deed registered at the courthouse contained a clause which stated that in every foot of real estate that was transferred was written a clause “prohibiting the making, using, handling, storing, or selling of intoxicating liquors” under the penalty of revoking the real estate transfer.