Silver City - Barleycorn monument

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01/10/2012

Silver City - Barleycorn monument

A photo of a Tombstone dedicated to John Barleycorn giving his death as January 16, 1920, the date of the ratification of the 18th Amendment, on the grounds of the 1711 Club in Meriden, Conn

Date & Place: 1920.

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