Watertown, New York
Factory Square is  of abandoned factories above the black river that used hydropower. The factories were built in the 1880s and 1890s, which made the population and economy boom. In the year 1900, 3,760 people were hired to work in the factories. There was a district with a lot of saloons next to Factory Square. The district had a lot of fraud from factory workers going to the saloons after work. The Watertown Daily Times sometimes wrote about factory workers being scammed by "tin-horn gamblers and short-card men".