Medicine
Lodge has many historical areas to visit like the Stockade Museum and the Carry
Nation Home. The current Stockade Museum is a smaller replica of the original
built in 1874 because of Indian raids. About 200 people, cows and dogs stayed
in the stockade from May until fall.
David
and Carry Nation moved to Medicine Lodge in 1890 and while there, Carry began
lecturing against tobacco and liquor. She helped organize the Medicine Lodge
chapter of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union. To help enforce the law
against liquor, she began smashing saloons and smashed her first in 1900 in
Kiowa. The Carry Nation home was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1976.
To
learn more about these and other historic events that took place in Medicine
Lodge, go to http://medicinelodgestockade.org/.
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