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.
OK, so real-estate brokers trying to turn East Boston into EaBo should be, if not shot, at least run out of town. Charles Swift notes that Louisburg Square, today the deluxiest of deluxe Beacon Hill addresses, was once known as Mount Whoredom.
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