You've probably heard of the infamous Hell's Half Acre in the disorderly Fort Worth, Texas. Among the various Hell's Half Acres that dotted the frontier, none was more infamous or more rambunctious than Fort Worth's. The Fort Worth version started during the city's heyday as a drover's stop on the cattle trails to Kansas in the early 1870s.
Anymore, Fort Worth's Acre is nothing more than a dot in the map, marked by a landmark off Houston Street (pronounced properly, like Hyü-sten). Still, it's always good to know about history. read more