Margaret E. Woolfolk Library

Historical marker location:

100 North Currie Street, Marion, Arkansas

( Marker is on North Currie Street east of Currie Avenue, on the left when traveling east.)

Erected 2001. Courthouse Square Walking Trail.

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 Prohibition was repealed in the state in 1933, shortly after the end of the nationwide prohibition era.