What was once a flourishing community suddenly ceased to exist.

Chesapeake Bay once had a flourishing oyster population which has been almost wiped out by overfishing.

Thomasville quickly rebuilt, this time in brick, and was once again flourishing by the start of World War I.

Chesapeake Bay's once flourishing oyster population historically filtered excess nutrients from the estuary's entire water volume every three to four days.

Today, " The Coalminer's Inn " on Main Street, and Red Cross Pharmacy's anthracite souvenirs serve as a reminder of this once flourishing coal town.

She became increasingly resentful of the switch in the dynamic of their relationship as her career was now over while Korda, who had once relied on her for the production of his films, was relatively flourishing.

The once flourishing Viennese Jewish culture was destroyed during the Holocaust.

Jeremy McBride argues that respect for the freedom of association by all public authorities and the exercising of this freedom by all sections of society are essential both to establish a " genuine democracy " and to ensure that, once achieved, it remains " healthy and flourishing ".

It was not till after Sismondi had become an author that, observing the identity of his family arms with those of the once flourishing Pisan house of the Sismondi and finding that some members of that house had migrated to France, he assumed the connection without further proof and called himself Sismondi.

Marazion was once a flourishing town, owing its prosperity to the throng of pilgrims who came to visit St Michael's Mount ( this ceased at the time of the Reformation ).

Victoria once remarked that Beatrice was " a pretty, plump and flourishing child ... with fine large blue eyes, pretty little mouth and very fine skin ".

Del Monaco belonged to a once flourishing lineage of dramatic tenors born in Italy.

By the 1960s production was once again flourishing.

By the time of Queen Anne ( 1702 – 1714 ) the village was flourishing once more, with a population of over one thousand.

This improvement in water quality has also seen other fish thrive with stocks of Chub, Roach and Perch all flourishing once again with the most popular angling spots situated on the river at Colliers Wood.

Enrollment declined owing to the distance of the new neighborhood from the center, but the Jesuits persevered and by the end of the 19th century the school was once again flourishing.

Historically a part of Lancashire, Orrell was once a centre of a flourishing mining industry, though today no evidence of the area's industrial past is present.

A loop road from Quirino Avenue is named Plaza Dilao to commemorate the once flourishing Japanese and the Japanese-Filipino communities and districts there in Japantown in Manila.

A few miles to the northeast, bare paddocks mark the site of Homebush, once a flourishing mining village.

Thus the beautiful town of Taal remains a deserted wilderness and reduced to the utmost misery, while once it was one of the richest and most flourishing places.

Sheberghan was once a flourishing settlement along the Silk Road.

He must train his Digimon and battle his way through all of Digimon World until the once sparsely populated city is flourishing with different Digimon from all of Digimon World.

Seeking summer employment, at his mother's urging, so that she pay for the upkeep of a mental patient named Mr. Fincham she has adopted, Ben responds to an ad placed by Dame Evie Walton, an alcoholic, classically-trained actress who was reduced to accepting a role on a daytime soap opera when her once flourishing career began to fade and hasn't worked since the series ended, to her annoyance.

Settlers from Luzon and Visayas starting to arrive transforming the once a forest into a flourishing area of agriculture.

When he was going to town, nothing was good enough -- he had cursed at Winston once for leaving a fleck of polish on his shoelace.

A story is told that he once painted his face green and rode through town on his bicycle in its honour ( and possibly under its influence ).

As of late 2005, the area once devoted to a live-action facsimile of Dogpatch ( including a lifesize statue in the town square of Dogpatch " founder ," General Jubilation T. Cornpone ) has been heavily stripped by vandals and souvenir hunters, and is today slowly being reclaimed by the surrounding Arkansas wilderness.

Victor Hugo found the town so beautiful he once said: " take Versailles, add Antwerp, and you have Bordeaux ".

In 1966, the " Finn VC Estate " was named in honour of Victoria Cross winner James Henry Finn who once lived in the town.

She resumed life with her family, and they supported her fully, acknowledging her chosen path and demanding of her little in the way of household responsibilities, " I was never once asked to do an errand in town, some bit of shopping … so well did they understand.

In the early 15th century, the town became an independent state once again, and emerged as a safe harbour for pirates and privateers, leading to it being targeted by the Portuguese, who destroyed the town in 1468.

The ruling class among the mediaeval townsfolk were rich merchant families whose houses stood right near the castle tower and were surrounded by the first town wall once it was built.

The area of today ’ s Rossmarkt (“ Horse Market ”), in which many simple craftsmen lived, was only brought within the fortifications once the second town wall was built.

Only in 1341 were they once again able to settle in the town, by royal decree.

Even after this experience, once Eckstine's band left town, Davis ' parents were still keen for him to continue formal academic studies.

The town takes its name from a variety of oak tree that once covered the terrain.

The principal building on the piazza is the town hall, once the Palazzo dei Priori ( built late 13th, early 14th century ) which was for many years the Palazzo Comunale.

When Trotsky arrived in New York in January 1917, Bukharin was the first to greet him ( as Trotsky's wife recalled, " with a bear hug and immediately began to tell them about a public library which stayed open late at night and which he proposed to show us at once " dragging the tired Trotskys across town " to admire his great discovery ").

Velocities of 160 km / h ( 100 mph ) have been reported in southern locations, and the town of Encarnación was once leveled by a tornado.

The family originated in Tuscany, in the town of Poliziano, which had once been subject to Siena, but later was under the control of Florence.

Triggered by a dispute involving the Naim, the Bahrainis once again laid claim to the deserted town of Az Zubarah in 1937.

Shortly afterwards, the town was once again incorporated into the Soviet Union as the capital of the Lithuanian SSR.

" Here I can breathe freely and I feel happy ", he once said about the town.

The town once had four hospitals, Buckland, Royal Victoria, Isolation and the Eye Hospitals located at various points across the town.

Władysław acceded to the formal cession of Samogitia, and agreed to support the Order's designs on Pskov ; in return, Konrad von Jungingen undertook to sell Poland the disputed Dobrzyń Land and the town of Złotoryja, once pawned to the Order by Władysław Opolski, and to support Vytautas in a revived attempt on Novgorod.

" The City of Brass " features a group of travellers on an archaeological expedition across the Sahara to find an ancient lost city and attempt to recover a brass vessel that Solomon once used to trap a jinn, and, along the way, encounter a mummified queen, petrified inhabitants, lifelike humanoid robots and automata, seductive marionettes dancing without strings, and a brass horseman robot who directs the party towards the ancient city, which has now become a ghost town.

Similarly, it is known that Selsey was once a port town, with Selsey Abbey and a cathedra recorded until 1075, when the see of the Diocese of Sussex was moved inland to Chichester.