Hell's Map


Again, the maps are rough but they help to visualize the areas where lively life was going on during the primary years of Hell's Half Acre in Oklahoma City. Front and Broadway rang North-South. Today Front is Santa Fe and/or Gaylord.  It began life as Clarke Street, Front, and then Santa Fe...
Close up of Hell, ca. 1893. C Marilyn A. Hudson, 2015

Larger view of the environs of Hell noting earliest recorded houses of prostitution identified from newspaper court reports. c Marilyn A. Hudson 2015

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