Originally Posted by Stoney

The old red light district in Prescott Arizona was called Hell's Half Acre back before the turn of the century. It was burned down before 1910 when a local minister set fire to the row of whore's cribs and the flagration spread to the entire Whiskey Row district. The townfolk wetted down the rest of the town to fight the fire but did nothing to stop the fire in the row,

Prescott was home to Fort Prescott, and among one of the locals was Fiorello LaGuardia, later a reform Mayor of New York City (he banned pinball machines and slot machines and did his best to close the brothels that lined the shipping piers on the Hudson and East River in Manattan and Brooklyn.