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Grave (Row 7, Boothill Graveyard) of 'Dutch Annie,' a Tombstone madam of the early 1880s known as the 'Queen of the Red-Light District,' who died in 1883. A place-anchored entry point into the district's social history: she was remembered for lending money to miners in hardship, and her funeral procession reportedly drew a large cross-section of the town.
Quick facts
- ·Place-anchored at Boothill Graveyard (north edge of Tombstone, ~31.7186,-110.0699; refine to the Row 7 plot if a finer coord is needed -- the listed coord is the cemetery, not the exact headstone). DOCUMENTED via the Chamber's official Boothill page and named on the HMDB Boothill marker among notable interments. Her real name is explicitly unknown -- DO NOT invent one. CAUTION / FLAG AS UNVERIFIED COLOR: the funeral-attendance figure ('more than 1,000 citizens') and the characterization of her generosity are presented by the Chamber as narrative without primary citation -- attribute as 'by local account' rather than asserting as hard fact. A separate Facebook source notes there may have been TWO madams called 'Dutch Annie' -- disambiguation flag for the writer. This candidate exists to anchor the district's human history to a real, visitable grave, NOT to glamorize.
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