Described as a "hell-hole of squalor", Darktown was used as as inspiration for the play Hamilton.
Darktown was characterized in the 1930s as a "hell-hole of squalor, degradation, sickness, crime and misery". It is the setting for Thomas Mullen's 2016 novel Darktown. It is used as such in the title of the famous song Darktown Strutters' Ball and 1899 Charles Hale song, At a Darktown Cakewalk. 
It tells the story of American Founding Father Alexander Hamilton. Miranda said he was inspired to write the musical after reading the 2004 biography Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow. 
