Word: redlighter
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...long time after the Civil War, respectable women of Washington risked their reputations if they were seen walking on the south side of Pennsylvania Avenue between 9th and 15th Streets. That was because from the south side nearly to the Potomac stretched the city's redlight district. It was called "Hooker's Division'' after doughty General Joseph ("Fighting Joe") Hooker, who once stabled his troops there and made thoughtful arrangements for their oblectation. The Division's No. 1 house was a rococo manse known as ''Mahogany Hall...
...Louis Cemetery No. 3, scratch crosses on the crumbling cement and bricks. Official records list her as having been buried in her 80's in another tomb in St. Louis Cemetery No. 1, back of the Southern Railway's Terminal Station, in the heart of the oldtime redlight district. Many a Negro, an occasional white, still believes that if he scratches a cross on the nameless tomb on St. John's Eve (June 23), prays to Voodoo's Gran' Zombi, P'tit Zombi and Marie Leveau, he will get what he wants before next...