A 1912 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Kemmerer shows approximately how Kemmerer’s Main Street Triangle looked when Prohibition began in 1919

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Buildings marked as “Sal.” designate saloons and make up about half of the buildings on the triangle’s east side on South Main Street. These became hot spots for bootlegging and illegal alcohol sales during Prohibition. | Source:
Sanborn Map Company, from The Library of Congress. Image Three: “Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Kemmerer, Lincoln County, Wyoming, 1912,” available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g4264km.g097641912.

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Sanborn Map Company, from The Library of Congress. Image Three: “Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Kemmerer, Lincoln County, Wyoming, 1912,” available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g4264km.g097641912.

"A 1912 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Kemmerer shows approximately how Kemmerer’s Main Street Triangle looked when Prohibition began in 1919" appears in: Kemmerer, Wyoming Alcohol Culture during Prohibition