The whores of Beacon Hill
By adamg - Tue, 06/13/2006 - 9:46am.
J.L. Bell picks up Charles Swift's post on Mt. Whoredom's conversion to Louisburg Square with more details on Boston's original Combat Zone:
... The British officers clearly savored the irony of the puritanical town having a red-light district. And perhaps some savored the district as well.
Gen. George Washington, on the other hand, used a delicate misspelling when writing to the Continental Congress on 7 Mar 1776 about contingency plans to storm Boston ...
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Bacon
I love Washington's other creative spelling: "Bacon Hill". I hesitate to call it a misspelling, not knowing how standardized the spellings of place names were at the time. (My guess is not very).
The brothels didn't move far
The red light district then just slid down the hill to Boston's first Combat Zone, old Scollay Square, now home to City Hall and the JFK Federal Building. How appropriate. At least people still get screwed there.