Charles A. Thatcher

Historical marker location:

1048 State Street, Bangor, Maine

( Memorial is on Western Avenue north of Lake Avenue, on the right when traveling north.)

Capt. U. S. Navy.

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.