Old Black River Bridge

Historical marker location:

Pocahontas, Arkansas

( Marker is on Dickerson St, 0.3 miles east of South Bettis Street (U.S. 62), in the median.)

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 Prohibition was repealed in the state in 1933, shortly after the end of the nationwide prohibition era.