With two daily trains, business in the town boomed and the city decided to showcase their development by hosting a Labor Day celebration that year.

So the two mile stretch which was unofficially called Centertown grew and boomed and a local mover and shaker named Lou Hargis felt it was time for an incorporated city.

The city grew as a stop for steamboats to take on fresh water and supplies, especially after steamboat traffic boomed when gold was discovered in the Black Hills.

Killeen suffered a recession when Camp Hood was all but abandoned after the end of the Second World War, but when Fort Hood was established as a permanent army post in 1950, the city boomed again.

In the early days of the 20th century, the city boomed.

Also, city living has boomed with city centre population's rising rapidly.

However, during this period the city lost its status as the capital of the region, with Split overwhelmingly surpassing Zadar in population numbers, which, though increasing throughout the 20th century, boomed in the new, post-WWII, Yugoslavia.

Initially, due to its texture, it could only be processed by hand until it was discovered in that city that by treating it with whale oil, it could be treated by machine The industry boomed (" jute weaver " was a recognised trade occupation in the 1901 UK census ), but this trade had largely ceased by about 1970 due to the appearance of synthetic fibres.

The paper industry boomed in Baghdad where an entire street in the city center became devoted to sales of paper and books.

In subsequent decades the city has boomed as a beach resort, and it has seen some success at marketing its agricultural products, primarily its tomatoes and olives.

Until the independence of Angola in 1975, the city of Nova Lisboa expanded and its economic growth and development boomed, making it one of the most important urban centres in the then Portuguese Overseas Province of Angola.

The city boomed as railways were built to New England, Toronto, and the west, and factories were established along the Lachine Canal.

The tenements were built to provide high density housing for the large number of people immigrating to the city in the 19th and early 20th century due to the Industrial Revolution, when the city's population boomed to more than 1 million people.

During the last quarter of the 19th century the town boomed as the rich gold deposits under the city were developed.

Throughout the 19th century, the port city of Galveston boomed ; and the Strand, which is very close to the harbor, grew into the region's main business center.

The town boomed on the back of fine pottery production & canals, and became known as ' The Mother Town ' of the six towns that make up the city.

However, it and other newer highways encouraged visitors to continue on to the Virginia Beach resort area on the Atlantic Ocean, a small city which boomed after merging with Princess Anne County in 1963.

The development rapidly intensified after the mid-19th century when the territory gradually became the commercial centre of Kiev, which boomed immensely during the Russian Industrial Revolution, thus becoming the third most important city in the Russian Empire.

Tourism boomed during Marc Morial's mayoralty ; the city ’ s downtown core saw the construction of 14 new hotels during his tenure.

As the automotive industry boomed, there was an increased demand for housing in the city of Detroit, and new buildings and apartment houses were constructed behind and between the existing homes in the neighborhood.

The Authority boomed in partnership with Robert Moses after World War II as a part of Moses ' plan to clear old tenements and remake New York as a modern city.

Even apart from the fact that now at the age of 31 my personal life is being totally disrupted for the second time for no very compelling reason -- I cannot help looking around at the black leather jacket brigades standing idly on the street corners and in the taverns of every American city and asking myself if our society has gone mad.

It is the second largest city in Japan, with about four million people.

The largest city in the Aegean Region of Turkey is İzmir, which is also the country's third largest city and second largest port after Istanbul.

In December 1988, the second largest city in the republic, Leninakan ( now Gyumri ), was heavily damaged by a massive quake that killed more than 25, 000 people.

* 1902 – Quetzaltenango, the second largest city of Guatemala, is destroyed by an earthquake.

The second Abbasid caliph, Al Mansur ( 754 – 775 ) founded the city of Baghdad to act as a centre of learning, and included in its design a library-translation centre known as Bayt al-Hikma ‘ Storehouse of Wisdom ’, which continued to receive development from his heirs and was to provide a major impetus for Arabic-Persian translations of Hellenistic astrological texts.

In the 14th century the city was expanded in two stages, and a second defensive wall was constructed.

* Aba, Abia, a city in Nigeria and former second capital of Biafra

It is the second most populous city in the Centro Region of Portugal, after Coimbra.

With a population of 3. 5 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city and is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union.

The largest city is Vancouver, the third-largest metropolitan area in Canada, the largest in Western Canada, and the second largest in the Pacific Northwest.

" A second possible objective now occurred to the French – an Allied incursion into Alsace and an attack on the city of Strasbourg.

Ezra is written to fit a schematic pattern in which the God of Israel inspires a king of Persia to commission a leader from the Jewish community to carry out a mission ; three successive leaders carry out three such missions, the first rebuilding the Temple, the second purifying the Jewish community, and the third sealing of the holy city itself behind a wall.

A further deportation of Jews from Jerusalem to Babylon occurred in 586 when a second unsuccessful rebellion resulted in the destruction of the city and its Temple and the exile of the remaining elements of the royal court, including the last scribes and priests.

Barcelona (,, ) is the capital of Catalonia and the second largest city in Spain, after Madrid, with a population of 1, 621, 537 within its administrative limits on a land area of.

The second legend attributes the foundation of the city directly to the historical Carthaginian Hamilcar Barca, father of Hannibal, who named the city Barcino after his family in the 3rd century BC.

Barcelona remained the second largest city in Spain, at the heart of a region which was relatively industrialised and prosperous, despite the devastation of the civil war.

When the Assyrians attacked Judah in 701 they did so via the Philistine coast and the Shephelah, the border region which included Micah's village of Moresheth, as well as Lachish, Judah's second largest city.

In 1978 New Jersey allowed gambling in Atlantic City, now America's second largest gambling city.

* Douala-main port, railhead, and second largest city.

The population density was 16, 422. 08 people per square mile ( 6, 341. 98 / km² ), making Cambridge the fifth most densely populated city in the US and the second most densely populated city in Massachusetts behind neighboring Somerville.