THE JAXSON | Inside LaVilla’s long-forgotten red-light district

Centered around Ward Street in LaVilla, Jacksonville’s notorious early 20th century red light district was a dense and complicated landscape that most Jaxsons know very little about. Once home to more than 60 bordellos and popular madams Cora Crane, Belle Orloff and Lyda De Camp, here are five forgotten facts associated with LaVilla.

“Disorderly houses,” not brothels

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