What Was The First City in Texas To Legalize Prostitution?

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I guessed Galveston

Answer: Waco. The city legalized the vice in 1889, becoming only the second city in the U.S. to do so. Licensed brothels were confined to a downtown red-light district called The Reservation, and workers were required to undergo regular medical exams. Registered prostitutes caught outside the area could be charged with vagrancy and fined $200.

Federal authorities successfully lobbied to shut down The Reservation in 1917, when the newly constructed Camp MacArthur became home to 28,000 soldiers training for combat during World War I.

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now, its the state capitol…

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Galveston would have been my first guess, too. Waco legalized it first? Go figure. Is booze even legal there?

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Not in front of each other.