First Legal Liquor Store

Mississippi's dry law was stranger than its repeal. Voters overturned legislative repeals in 1934 and again in 1952, yet from 1944 the state taxed alcohol at 10 percent of its sales price, and court challenges argued that the tax nullified the ban. Counties along the Mississippi River and the Gulf Coast sold openly anyway. In 1966, with Governor Paul B. Johnson pushing, the legislature let counties set their own alcohol policies and created a state agency to tax and license sales. Greenville's Jigger and Jug opened that August as the first legal package store.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Greenville Levee and the 1927 Flood — 2.0 mi
  The Mississippi River levee at Greenville, where thousands of mostly Black refugees camped in the flood of April 1927 and where the Department of Archives and History has placed markers.
• Winterville Mounds — 6.1 mi
  A Mississippian ceremonial center north of Greenville, built by hand from about AD 1000, with a 55-foot Temple Mound and twelve of its original twenty-three mounds still standing.
• Lake Chicot State Park — 9.4 mi
  A state park on the largest natural lake in Arkansas, a 20-mile oxbow of the Mississippi River that was cleaned up and reopened after decades of silt.
• Lakeport Plantation — 12 mi
  Arkansas's grandest surviving Greek Revival plantation house, built about 1858 by a planter who held 155 enslaved people in 1860, now an Arkansas State University museum.

More markers nearby

• Pvt. Robert T. (Bobby) Henry — 1.1 mi
• Holt Collier — 1.6 mi
• Greenville's Writers — 1.7 mi
• Harriet Blanton Theobald Park — 1.8 mi