The Silver Screen / Le septième art

Historical marker location:

Belfast, Maine

( Marker is on High Street east of Market Street, on the right when traveling south.)

Marker installed: 2004

Belfast, 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.