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Fort Smith, Arkansas, USA, celebrates and markets its heritage as an Old Westtown. Visitors to the city may tour a variety of historic attractions including a trolley museum, the national historic site featuring the courtroom and gallows of “ hanging judge” Isaac C. Parker, and a number of restored Victorian mansions that were once the homes of prominent citizens. The most unusual attraction is Miss Laura’s Social Club, a restored Victorian brothel built in 1896 that now serves as the city’s official Visitor Centre. Visitors tour the rooms in which the prostitutes slept and did business, hear about the prominent citizens who visited the social club, and hear tales of how the founding madam, Laura Ziegler, held a position of power in the business community
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Voelkel, M., Henehan, S. (2016). Daughters of Joy?. In: Clover, D.E., Sanford, K., Bell, L., Johnson, K. (eds) Adult Education, Museums and Art Galleries. International Issues in adult Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-687-3_7
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