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Article that tries to raise awareness that Murder Bay is not the only red light district in the United States.

Newspaper article describing the public's outrage at the existence of Murder Bay.

Newspaper article about an effort to clean up Murder Bay.

Newspaper article from the Washington Post describing the history of Murder Bay.

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map of Murder Bay with several of the brothels identified.

The page out of the Dictionary of Americanisms explaining the word hooker.

a look at the infamous red light district of Corlears Hook

A visualization in the form of a line graph that compares the increase and decrease over time of various words. In this instance the words that are being compared are prostitute, whore, harlot, and hooker.

Map of Murder Bay from 1890. Contains a visual as well as addresses of 50 saloons, 109 brothels and 60 places where Alcohol was sold, but not taxed by the government

Picture of Murder Bay in 1855.