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The City In the Valley, The Houses On the Hill: Brothels In the Landscape of an Affluent Mountain Mining Town (2024)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Where today is a grove of trees and a mountainous mine tailing, was once the brothels of Central City. Once a prominent and affluent mountain mining town, now a sleepy casino town, the brothels served the needs of the surrounding mining towns. Despite being pushed ‘out of town’ soon after establishment, these businesses were...