Carry A. Nation Home and Stockade Museum

Carrie Amelia Moore was born in Kentucky in 1846. Her first husband, the young doctor Charles Gloyd, died of drink the year after their daughter was born. She married David Nation in 1874, and after a cotton plantation in Texas failed, the Nations came to Medicine Lodge, where he was a minister. From 1889 to 1902 they lived in this small brick house at Fowler Avenue and Oak Street, on what is now US-160.

Here she organized a local branch of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and campaigned for enforcement of the state's prohibition law. Her first raid, in December 1894, was on a Medicine Lodge 'pharmacy.' 'Mr. Day, the ladies of the WCTU want to see what you have in here,' she announced, and the women rolled out a keg of whiskey, smashed it and set it alight. It was in this house, by her own account, that a voice woke her one June morning with the words 'Go to Kiowa.' She sold the house in 1902 and used the money to open a home in Kansas City for the wives of drunkards.

The WCTU bought the house in the 1950s, and it was named a National Historic Landmark in 1976. It holds period furnishings and her memorabilia, and one admission covers it and the Stockade Museum next door, a log replica of the settlers' stockade of 1874. The replica dates from 1961, and the 1975 landmark nomination complained that the house suffered from its proximity to 'a touristy replica of a fort.'