Early Banking / Les premières banques

Historical marker location:

Searsport, Maine

( Marker is at the intersection of East Main Street (Rt. US-1) and Mosman Street, on the right when traveling east on East Main Street (Rt. US-1).)

Marker installed: 2009

Searsport, Maine. The Museum in the Streets.

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.