When I was a youngster in Kentucky, I occasionally heard references to Newport as a “bad place,” but didn’t learn the details because the town was pretty far away. As an adult I visited the aquarium in Newport, and found it’s a perfectly normal town. But it once held the title of “Sin City.
” It started with the Civil War and a lucrative prostitution trade. During Prohibition, it became a mecca for bootleg liquor, controlled by organized crime. Afterward, Newport was known for its casinos, strip clubs, and brothels. As the 1960s dawned, a citizens group, the Committee of 500, formed to find ways to clean up the town, and they stumbled into a spectacular scandal that did just that….The post How Newport, Kentucky, Lost the Title of ‘Sin City’ appeared first on FeedBox.