FAULKNER COUNTY, Ark. (KTHV) - 35 of Arkansas's 75 counties are dry, where the sale of alcohol is banned by law. One of them is Faulkner County, home to three colleges.

A THV11 viewer asked if one of those colleges has something to do with Faulkner County being dry.

THV11’s VERIFY team went out and got answers.

Aaron Crow wrote us to ask this, "I was once told that the reason Faulkner County is a dry county is because Hendrix College has a bylaw that says that the county the college is in has to be dry. Can you verify if this is true or not?"

"This is a complicated issue, but it's got a simple answer," said Jamie Gates, the Executive Vice President of the Conway Area Chamber of Commerce. He’s our first source. Along with Hendrix College and a book about the college written by James E. Lester, Jr. We began with Gates, "In the early 1940s Faulkner County voters voted to be dry and they haven't voted to overturn that since and that's why Faulkner County is what it is today," he said.

An email to Hendrix College spokeswoman Amy Forbus also echoes that same answer, she wrote, "The current By-Laws of Hendrix College (revised in 2017) make no mention of alcohol."

So, what then would prompt our viewer to write in? Well according to this book Hendrix College: A Centennial History by James E. Lester Jr., in the late 1800s many towns competed to be home to Hendrix. In a speech made in favor of Conway, an attorney mentioned the closure of the town's saloons as a point in its favor. That could be how the rumor started.

"The idea that Hendrix college is somehow keeping Faulkner County dry was a new one but it's just one of many," said Gates. One of many rumors, Gates said.

He said it would take a petition and an election by voters for the county to go from dry to wet, and there are currently no plans for that right now.