Squatter's Row was a historic neighborhood in the downtown area of

Omaha, Nebraska Omaha ( ) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Nebraska and the county seat of Douglas County. Omaha is in the Midwestern United States on the Missouri River, about north of the mouth of the Platte River. The nation's 39th-largest cit ...

. It was an area between North 11th and North 13th Streets, from Nicholas to Locust Streets, behind the Storz Brewery. For more than 75 years this area was inhabited solely by

squatters Squatting is the action of occupying an abandoned or unoccupied area of land or a building, usually residential, that the squatter does not own, rent or otherwise have lawful permission to use. The United Nations estimated in 2003 that there ...

. A village of shacks built of materials salvaged from the Omaha city dump, the neighborhood included different enclaves such as Vinegar Flats, Blind Pig Alley, among others.

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. (1939) ''Nebraska: A guide to the Cornhusker state.'' Nebraska State Historical Society. p 243.

References

Bibliography

* Larsen, L. and Cottrell, B. (1997) ''The Gate City: A History of Omaha.'' University of Nebraska Press. p. 158. * Sullenger, T.E. (1937) "Problems of Ethnic Assimilation in Omaha," ''Social Forces, 15'' (3) March. pp. 402–410.

External links

"A History of Squatter's Row"
by Adam Fletcher Sasse for NorthOmahaHistory.com History of South Omaha, Nebraska Historic districts in Omaha, Nebraska Neighborhoods in South Omaha, Nebraska {{Omaha-stub