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Hell's Half Acre was a precinct of Fort Worth, Texas designated as a red-light district beginning in the early to mid 1870s in the Old Wild West. [1] It came to be called the town's "Bloody Third ward " because of the violence and lawlessness in the area.
Hell’s Half-Acre was Fort Worth’s notorious red-light district from the 1870s through World War I, located on the south end of town. It was a gathering place for the worst elements of society ...
Cutting Edge Haunted House was built in a 100-year-old abandoned meat packing plant in a section of Fort Worth that had once been referred to as "Hell's Half Acre." [ 4 ] The equipment is still in use as a "two-story human conveyor system". [ 1 ]
Hell's Half-Acre: The Untold Story of the Benders, a Serial Killer Family on the American Frontier. New York: Viking, 2022. ISBN 978-1-9848-7983-7; Katz, Brigit. "The Kansas Homestead Where America's First Serial Killer Family Committed Its Crimes Is Up for Sale". Smithsonian Magazine, February 4, 2020 [52] Lane, Brian and Gregg, Wilfred.
“Extremely haunted”: A new year-round ghost tour takes you on a spooky but informative trip through Fort Worth’s history and the Stockyards.
Hell's Half Acre, a side slot canyon in Aravaipa Canyon, Arizona; Hell's Half Acre (Hot Springs, Arkansas), a talus hillside on Indian Mountain near Hot Springs, Arkansas; Hell's Half Acre Lava Field, a basaltic lava field on the Snake River Plain, Idaho; Hell's Half Acre, the rapids immediately upstream of the American side of Niagara Falls
New Regency has won the rights to a buzzy non-fiction title shedding new light on America’s first serial killer family. “Hell’s Half-Acre,” penned by British historian Susan Jonusas ...
Though Hell's Half Acre became a popular euphemism for red-light districts throughout Texas, the most well-known district to use this name was the one in Fort Worth. The area developed in the 1870s as a rest stop on the cattle trails from Texas through Kansas. It quickly became populated with saloons, brothels, and other vice dens offering ...