Historical Marker
Ocean Park Hotel
Historical marker location:
Old Orchard Beach, Maine
( Marker is on Colby Avenue east of Clover Street, on the left when traveling west.)
Marker installed: 2007
1882-1963.
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.