Squatter's Row was a historic neighborhood in the Downtown Omaha, Nebraska#North Downtown, downtown area of Omaha, Nebraska. It was an area between North 11th and North 13th Streets, from Nicholas to Locust Streets, behind the Storz Beer, Storz Brewery. For more than 75 years this area was inhabited solely by squatting, squatters. 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.
[Federal Writers' Project. (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
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