Whiskeytown
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Whiskeytown or Whiskey Town was an unincorporated area just east of Bessemer and north of Lipscomb which thrived as a district of saloons, shothouses, gambling dens and brothels during periods when liquor sales were subject to local prohibition.
Those prohibitions were removed in the late 1890s, allowing a new rush of saloons to open in the center of Bessemer.