Boomtown
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A boomtown is a community that undergoes sudden and rapid population and economic growth, or that is started from scratch. The growth is normally attributed to the nearby discovery of a precious resou
World's Richest Acre Park in Downtown Kilgore, where the greatest concentration of oil wells in the world once stood in Kilgore, Texas, United States
Trieste, Italy, from the opening of the free port, a boomtown of Central Europe in the northernmost part of the Adriatic.
California attracted tens of thousands of gold prospectors during the Gold Rush of 1849.
"Canvas Town" – South Melbourne, Victoria. Temporary accommodation for the thousands who poured into Melbourne each week in the early 1850s during the Victorian gold rush.
Tombstone, Arizona
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Tombstone is a city in Cochise County, Arizona, United States. It was founded in 1879 by Ed Schieffelin, a prospector in what was then Pima County, Arizona Territory. It was one of the many boomtowns
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Tombstone in 2018
Ed Schieffelin in Tombstone in 1880
Tombstone in 1881 by C. S. Fly
Tombstone sheriff and constituents, an illustration from the March 1884 edition of Harper's New Monthly Magazine