Cornerstone Day / La pose des premières pierres

Historical marker location:

283 Water Street, Augusta, Maine

( Marker is on Water Street south of Winthrop Street/Front Street, on the left when traveling north.)

Augusta, Maine.

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.