Boone County WWI Monument

Historical marker location:

100 West Main Street, Harrison, Arkansas

( Memorial is on West Rush Avenue east of North Willow Street, on the right.)

Marker installed: 1921

Arkansas was one of the first states in the U.S. to enact a statewide prohibition on the sale and consumption of alcohol, passing the law in 1915. Prohibition was repealed in the state in 1933, shortly after the end of the nationwide prohibition era.