The island was once the site of a fishing industry, native copper mining and a resort community.

* Golden Oak at Walt Disney World Resort A concept high-end resort living community within the Walt Disney World resort

While the area was predominantly a farming and fishing community some visionaries saw potential as a resort for vacationers.

The expansion of Ocean City since the 1960s has turned the northern part of the county from a summer resort to an expanding year-round community.

In its early history, Ephrata was a pleasure resort and an agricultural community.

Some State Sheriffs can also apply sanctions ranging from suspending drivers licences and car registration to wheel clamping and arranging community service orders, and as a last resort make arrests.

The small resort area of Virginia Beach grew in Princess Anne County, beginning in the late 19th century, particularly after the 1888 arrival of rail service and electricity and the opening of the original Princess Anne Hotel at the oceanfront near the tiny community of Seatack.

Seaside, Oregon, noted as Oregon ’ s oldest ocean resort community, also has multiple tourist attractions including, the Seaside Aquarium, and the Seaside Historical Society Museum.

The city operated the hotel and used the grounds as a community gathering place until 1932, when the resort was closed, remodeled, and reopened as the University of Tampa a year later.

Sparsely-populated Keeweenaw County was a mining center in the later 19th century but in the 20th century turned into a resort community.

Regular ferry service commenced across Lake Pontchartrain, and shortly thereafter another resort community was founded, Abita Springs.

The Catalina Foothills community also forms the core of Tucson's resort corridor.

The town was developed in the 1950s and established in 1958 primarily by M. Penn Phillips and the Holly Sugar Corporation as a resort community on the Salton Sea, a saline, endorheic rift lake located directly on the San Andreas Fault, yet very little development was achieved due to its isolation and lack of local employment opportunities.

Wofford founded the community as a resort in 1948.

That later incarnation was designed as a resort community for African Americans as in that period African Americans were frequently barred from public beaches and swimming pools.

Laguna Beach is a seaside resort city and artist community located in southern Orange County, California, United States, approximately southeast of the county seat of Santa Ana.

They and the nearby desert resort city are home to a large LGBT community.

San Diego Country Estates, commonly referred to as the Estates, is an affluent valley resort populace composed of several neighborhoods associated with the unincorporated community of Ramona, California.

Emerald Lake Hills was originally conceived as a resort community for city-weary San Franciscans during World War I. Emerald Lake Hills actually consists of two large subdivisions created around 1920: Emerald Lake ( even though there are two lakes ) and Emerald Hills.

Mostly known as an agricultural community, the Crystal Lake section of town was for a while a popular summer resort location.

The area developed from a primarily agricultural community in the mid-19th century into a suburban resort area for wealthy Philadelphia families, and in the early 20th century into an industrial working community.

In 1883 a group of investors formed the Jacksonville and Atlantic Railroad with the intention of developing a resort community that would be connected to Jacksonville by rail.

Farther east in the highly developed department of Maldonado lies the major resort of Punta del Este.

It used this power at least once to obtain land for Canal C-1 ( Bonnet Creek ) through land that is now being developed as the Bonnet Creek Resort, a non-Disney resort.

The resort was originally developed by Walt Disney in the 1960s to supplement Disneyland in California.

During the 1980s, Telluride developed a reputation for being " Colorado's best kept secret ", which paradoxically made it one of the more well-known resort communities.

By 1889 it had developed from a small village into a climatic health resort of 3, 000 inhabitants.

This area was developed far from the original settlement, deliberately on the edge of Brighton, as a fashionable resort in the early 19th Century, during the period of influence of George IV who famously commissioned Brighton's Royal Pavilion.

However, the disappointing attendance can be at least partly explained by the recession and increased unemployment which was affecting France and indeed most of the rest of the developed world at this time ; when construction of the resort began, the economy was still on an upswing.

Folkestone was at one stage a resort town with a developed shipping trade.

Grovetown, named for Grove Baptist Church, developed as a summer resort in the 1880s for wealthy Augustans.

Today the lake developed into a small resort for Romanian and foreign tourists.

Mandeville was founded in 1834 and was developed as a health resort for wealthy New Orleanians, because it was believed that ozone was both salutary and naturally emitted by the numerous trees in the area ( both beliefs later proven false ), giving rise to an early name for the region — the " Ozone Belt ".

Critics of foreign companies allege, for instance, that firms such as Nike and Gap Inc. resort to child labor and sweatshops in developing nations, paying their workers wages far lower than those that prevail in developed nations ( where the products are sold ).

As the nearby Lake Mohave developed into a major tourism destination, and as the casino and resort town of Laughlin, Nevada, sprouted up across the river, Bullhead City grew rapidly.

Burnham's plan was commissioned by the Ocean Shore Railroad, which developed El Granada as a seaside resort for visitors from San Francisco.

The first destination winter resort in the U. S. was developed by W. Averell Harriman, the chairman of the Union Pacific Railroad, primarily to increase ridership on U. P.

What is now the Paducah and Louisville Railway built a station in the area in 1874, and a summer resort and hotel called Paine Hotel developed around a shaded ridge on Muldraugh Hill, what came to be called Pleasure Ridge.

During the Gilded Age, Popham Beach developed into a resort area, with steamboats transporting excursionists from Bath.

With the arrival of the railroad in 1850, Stockbridge developed as a summer resort for the wealthy of Boston and other major cities.

* Adams Shore was originally developed as a summer resort location and is now a year-round residential area.

Portion of the historic Chicago Club, one of the several large resort communities that developed in Charlevoix around the turn of the 20th century.

The property was then purchased and developed into a more substantial beach resort by Thomas Reed in 1905.

* Keewahdin or Keewahdin Beach was a resort developed in 1914 by the Keewahdin Park Association on Lake Huron north of Port Huron.