Hell's Half Acre
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Hell’s Half-Acre, Hell’s Half-acre, or Hell’s Half Acre can refer to:
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- Hell's Half Acre Lava FieldHell's Half Acre Lava FieldHell's Half Acre lava field is a basaltic lava plain located on the Snake River Plain of Idaho in the United States. It is the easternmost of the basaltic lava fields on the Snake River Plain, located about west of Idaho Falls, Idaho and north of Pocatello, Idaho. In 1976 the National Park...
, a basaltic lava field on the Snake River Plain, Idaho, USA - Hell's Half Acre (Wyoming)Hell's Half Acre (Wyoming)Hell's Half Acre is a large scarp located about west of Casper, Wyoming on US 20/26. Encompassing , this geologic oddity is composed of deep ravines, caves, rock formations and hard-packed eroded earth...
, a unique escarpment in Natrona County, Wyoming. - Hell's Half Acre, a side slot canyon in Aravaipa Canyon, Arizona
- Hell's Half Acre, an area around Lock 38 of the Ohio and Erie CanalOhio and Erie CanalThe Ohio Canal or Ohio and Erie Canal was a canal constructed in the 1820s and early 1830s. It connected Akron, Summit County, with the Cuyahoga River near its mouth on Lake Erie in Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, and a few years later, with the Ohio River near Portsmouth, Scioto County, and then...
in Cuyahoga Valley National ParkCuyahoga Valley National ParkCuyahoga Valley National Park preserves and reclaims the rural landscape along the Cuyahoga River between Akron and Cleveland in Northeast Ohio. The park is the only national park in Ohio.Cuyahoga means "crooked river" in Mohawk.... - Hell's Half Acre, a location at the Battle of Stones RiverBattle of Stones RiverThe Battle of Stones River or Second Battle of Murfreesboro , was fought from December 31, 1862, to January 2, 1863, in Middle Tennessee, as the culmination of the Stones River Campaign in the Western Theater of the American Civil War...
- Hell's Half Acre, a saloon district in the early days of Fort Worth, TexasFort Worth, TexasFort Worth is the 16th-largest city in the United States of America and the fifth-largest city in the state of Texas. Located in North Central Texas, just southeast of the Texas Panhandle, the city is a cultural gateway into the American West and covers nearly in Tarrant, Parker, Denton, and...
catering to cowboys on the Chisholm Trail - Half Acre, AlabamaHalf Acre, AlabamaHalf Acre is an unincorporated community in Marengo County, Alabama. It has gone through a variety of name changes since the early 20th century. The community had a post office at one time, but it no longer exists...
, an unincorporated community in Marengo County originally known as Hell's Half Acre
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- a nickname for the playing field at Amon G. Carter StadiumAmon G. Carter StadiumAmon G. Carter Stadium is an open-air football stadium on the campus of Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas. It is the home stadium of the TCU Horned Frogs football team. It was named after Amon G...
, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas
In film:
- Hell's Half Acre (film)Hell's Half Acre (film)Hell's Half Acre is a 1954 film noir set in Hawaii.The film is directed and produced by John H. Auer and stars Wendell Corey, Evelyn Keyes and Elsa Lanchester. -Plot:...
, a 1954 film starring Evelyn Keyes, Wendell Corey, and Elsa Lanchester - Hell's Half Acre (2006 film), a 2006 horror film from filmmakers Sean Tiedeman and Scott Krycia
In literature:
- Hell's Half Acre (novel)Hell's Half Acre (novel)Hell's Half Acre is Will Christopher Baer's third novel.-Plot summary:Kidnapping, snuff films, amputee geeks and a requiem of lost love... Cast adrift after the blood symphony of Penny Dreadful, Poe is looking for answers in the form of a woman...
, a novel by Will Christopher Baer - Hell's Half Acre, a novel in the Walker, Texas RangerWalker, Texas RangerWalker, Texas Ranger is an American television action crime drama series created by Leslie Greif and Paul Haggis, and starring Chuck Norris as a member of the Texas Ranger Division. The show aired on CBS in the spring of 1993, with the first season consisting of three pilot episodes. Eight full...
series by James Reasoner - Hell's Half Acre: Early Days in the Great Alberta Oil Patch, a non-fiction book by D. Finch
- Half Acre of Hell, A: A Combat Nurse in WWII, an autobiography by Avis D. Schorer
- Hell's Half Acre, a thriller novel by Frederic Bean
- Hell's Half Acre, a novel by Harold Wayne Achimon
In music:
- Hell's Half Acre (song), a song from the album "The Crying Tree" (Blood Oranges).
- Hell's Half Acre (album), an album by the band JoleneJolene (band)Jolene is an alternative rock band based in North Carolina. Often described as alt-country, the band despises the term, and refuses to be labeled as such...
in 1995. - "Hell's Half Acre", a song on Robbie Robertson's eponymous 1987 album Robbie RobertsonRobbie Robertson (album)Robbie Robertson is the self-titled solo debut by Robbie Robertson, released in 1987. The album won the Juno Award for "Album of the Year", and producers Lanois and Robertson won the "Producer of the Year" Juno award, both in 1989 as there were no Juno Awards held in 1988.The album is notable for...
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