Trisha Shetty (Editor)

Hell's Half Acre (Fort Worth)

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Formed
  
1870s

Designated
  
1993

Elevation
  
186 m

Area
  
.5 acres (0.20 ha)

Governing body
  
State of Texas

Marker Number
  
2431

Nearest city
  
Fort Worth

Hell's Half Acre (Fort Worth) The Fort Worth Gazette Where The Heck Was Hell39s Half Acre


Similar
  
Fort Worth Stockyards, 
Como, Fort Worth, Texas
, Handley, Fort Worth, Texas

Hell's Half Acre was a rough and rowdy precinct of Fort Worth, Texas originating during the early to mid 1870s in the Old Wild West.

Hell's Half Acre (Fort Worth) HELL39S HALF ACRE FORT WORTH The Handbook of Texas Online Texas

The half acre block was originally designated from tenth street to fifteenth street while intersecting with Houston street, Main street, and Rusk street with Throckmorton and Calhoun streets established as boundaries. The Chisholm Trail and Texas and Pacific Railway were branded as the economic driving force leading to the progressive development of the rambunctious red-light district.

Hell's Half Acre (Fort Worth) Sodom on the Trinity Part 1 A Cold Day in Hell Hometown by

Hell's Half Acre consisted of boarding houses, brothels, gambling parlours, hotels, saloons, and a sparse assortment of mercantile businesses. The twenty-two thousand square foot ward caught the glimpse of such Old West personalities as Bat Masterson, Butch Cassidy, Doc Holliday, Etta Place, Luke Short, Sam Bass, Sundance Kid, and Wyatt Earp.

Hell's Half Acre (Fort Worth) TCU39s original home in Fort Worth was near Hell39s Half Acre TCU 360

By 1919, Fort Worth's "Third Ward" was disavowed as a den of iniquity due to the law enforcement efforts of Jim Courtright and the Protestant orations of John Franklyn Norris.

Hell's Half Acre (Fort Worth) Hell39s Half Acre Jol Dantzig39s Guitar Diaries
Hell's Half Acre (Fort Worth) Panther City Fort Worth Texas History

Hell's Half Acre (Fort Worth) Cowboy Kisses Hell39s Half Acre by Kathleen Ball

Hell's Half Acre (Fort Worth) 2bpblogspotcom6poYTvTZ8fATq0YZtoQGFIAAAAAAA

References

Hell's Half Acre (Fort Worth) Wikipedia


Similar Topics