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A boomtown, Jarrow prospered at the start of the 20th century with Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company, which had been established in Jarrow in the mid-19th century, providing the main source of employment.
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Around the time of its incorporation Driftwood was at the center of the lumber industry and was a boomtown, with three hotels, two banks, two churches and numerous places of business, including a weekly newspaper, the Driftwood Gazette, owned by John T. Earl who was also the editor.
Sour Lake became a short-lived boomtown with the discovery of oil in 1901, shortly after oil was found at the nearby Spindletop salt dome.
Oil discoveries in 1903 at the Batson-Old oilfield in neighboring Hardin County made Liberty, the nearest train stop, a boomtown.
In 1865 the steamboat Forty-Nine was built at Marcus to attempt the run to the goldrush boomtown of La Porte at the foot of the infamous Dalles des Morts or " Death Rapids ", which were located in the immediate vicinity of the rush and were the upper barrier to river navigation.
It was a boomtown of the 19th century and at its zenith, in 1929, its 216 cotton mills and 26 bleaching and dying works made it one of the largest and most productive centres of cotton spinning in the world.
Coal was transferred from canal barges to river ships at Rondout, and it became a boomtown quickly.
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Huron became a boomtown in the early 20th century and has grown steadily ever since.
Though never again the railroad boomtown of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the community enjoyed a growth spurt in the 1950s and 1980s, celebrating its centennial in 1987.
Humble became an oil boomtown in the early 20th century when oil was first produced there.
Goldfield was a boomtown in the first decade of the 20th century due to the discovery of gold — between 1903 and 1940, Goldfield's mines produced more than $ 86 million.
The discovery of gold in 1857 during the Victorian gold rush transformed it into a boomtown which continued to prosper until the turn of the 20th century after which it has steadily declined in population.
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In the early 21st century, housing and population increases were due to rising land costs in the metropolitan area, causing Lakeville to become a boomtown.
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The museum features an oil derrick and many reconstructed Gladys City building interiors furnished with authentic artifacts from the Spindletop boomtown period.
Preston was a boomtown of the Industrial Revolution, becoming a densely populated engineering centre, with large industrial plants.
During this construction period Colstrip was a boomtown, with a large increase in population.
Out of what was referred to then as a wet swampland, a boomtown sprung up in 1906 with the L & N Depot serving as the hub of the new town's business and social activities.
The boomtown days began to subside with the departure of the canal workers and the winding down of nearby logging operations.
The boomtown of Chadderton reached its industrial zenith in the 1910s, with over 50 cotton mills within the town limits.
The city is modern with the air of an oil-country boomtown.
As with any boomtown in the wild west, the only law is the law of the strongest.
Dundee soon emerged as a boomtown graced with stately homes and the first theatre north of Port Natal ( Durban ).
Oshikango is estimated to having grown from " a tiny cluster of shebeens around an open market into a thriving boomtown with around 5, 000 to 8, 000 inhabitants over a period of 10 years ".
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2, 386 ) is an old mining boomtown on the southwestern edge of the Iron Range, home of the Crosby-Ironton Rangers.
169 ) is an old mining boomtown on the Iron Range, located between Buhl and Mountain Iron.
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Roosevelt built a second ranch, which he named Elk Horn, thirty-five miles ( 56 km ) north of the boomtown of Medora, North Dakota.
About three miles ( 5 km ) south of Iraan was the oil boomtown of Redbarn, which appeared almost immediately after discovery of the oil field, before Iraan itself.
Fires in 1914 and 1924 destroyed the early " boomtown " commercial streetscape and led to the passing by Town Council of a bylaw which required masonry construction for all new downtown commercial buildings.
The three broadcast antennas are near the San Elijo area in the city, which recently became a boomtown in the 2000s and the antennas are surrounded by homes.
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Spindletop was the largest gusher the world had seen and catapulted Beaumont into an oil-fueled boomtown.
The once-struggling village of Tampa became a bustling boomtown almost overnight, and had grown into one of the largest cities in Florida by 1900.
Between 1872 and 1880, when the population had grown to 2, 800, Hastings was a boomtown.
What had formerly been a minor stop on the West Branch Canal and stagecoach lines was transformed into an industrial boomtown.
A true oil boomtown, Forsan's population had already reached 350 by 1931.
Within a few months time, the boomtown had swelled to a population of 45, 000, most lured by sensational advertising and " black gold ".
The boomtown of Borger soon had steam-generated electricity, telephone service, a hotel, and a jail.
Realizing he had lost control of the situation, Soapy left for the mining boomtown of Skagway, Alaska, in 1897, ceding control of Denver's underworld to Lou Blonger.
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Since its beginnings as a mountain ranch, Oakridge has been a railroad boomtown, a lumberjacks ' haven, and an outdoor enthusiast's destination.
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There's a museum here and also Old Abilene Town, a reconstruction of the cattle boomtown of the 70's and 80's.
In 1920, on February 17, the Vestal Well within the limits of Cross Plains struck oil and Cross Plains became an oil boomtown.
Ghost towns may result when the single activity or resource that created a boomtown ( e. g., nearby mine, mill or resort ) is depleted or the resource economy undergoes a " bust " ( e. g., catastrophic resource price collapse ).
The dismantling of a boomtown can often occur on a planned basis.
San Francisco grew from a small settlement of about 200 residents in 1846 to a boomtown of about 36, 000 by 1852.
Many of these ships were later destroyed and used for landfill to create more buildable land in the boomtown.
Ruggles ' new ' owners ', crude nouveau riche Americans Egbert and Effie Floud ( Charlie Ruggles and Mary Boland ), bring Ruggles back to Red Gap, Washington ; a remote Western boomtown.
Southeastern Arizona near Tombstone in 1887Tombstone, near the Mexican border, was formally founded in March 1879 and was a rapidly growing frontier mining boomtown.
The largest boomtown in the America southwest, the silver industry and attendant wealth attracted many professionals and merchants who brought their wives and families.
Casper is nicknamed " The Oil City " and has a long history of oil boomtown and cowboy culture, dating back to development of the nearby Salt Creek Oil Field.
Kosoma, a veritable boomtown, boasted several hotels, doctors ’ offices, and general stores during its heyday.
Beaton, Peter Miscovich, Lars Ostnes, and David Strandberg were prominent early arrivals who mined successfully long after the initial " boomtown " faded.
As the fastest growing boomtown in the American southwest, the silver industry and attendant wealth attracted many professionals and merchants who brought their wives and families.
Due to poor building practices and poor fire protection common to boomtown construction, Tombstone was hit by two major fires.
In 1956, Tuba City became a uranium boomtown, as the regional office for the Rare Metals Corporation and the Atomic Energy Commission.
Miami is a classic Western copper boomtown, though the copper mines are largely dormant now.
Saunders started promoting Eureka Springs to friends and family members across the State and created a boomtown.
With the prosperity brought by quartz mining, Sutter Creek became a boomtown.
After the second major fire, there was little gold left to mine, and so the town was never rebuilt to its boomtown condition.
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