Jefferson Davis Highway

Historical marker location:

106 Union Street, Dardenelle, Arkansas

( Marker is on Union Street (Arkansas Route 27) west of North Front Street, on the right when traveling west.)

Marker installed: 1961

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 Prohibition was repealed in the state in 1933, shortly after the end of the nationwide prohibition era.