The Knight House

Historical marker location:

20 Great Falls Plaza, Auburn, Maine

( Marker is on Auburn Riverwalk, 0.1 miles north of Great Falls Plaza, on the left when traveling north.)

1796.

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Maine was the first state to adopt Prohibition: Maine was the first state to adopt Prohibition in 1851, almost 70 years before the rest of the country followed suit. However, it was also one of the first states to repeal Prohibition, doing so in 1934.