It was a boom town in those days.
The community incorporated for the first time in 1870 and was a boom town, with as many as fifty businesses, in the early 1870s.
Blacksburg became a boom town and hotels and saloons were built for the new visitors.
Aurora's mines were so rich that the boom town attracted miners to the area from all over the west.
Greenfield was a boom town for 20 years, with the founding of manufacturing plants and other industries.
Johannesburg, like many other boom towns, grew rapidly and with little planning, and thus the city covers an extremely large area.
Several short-lived boom towns sprang up during the late 19th and early 20th centuries to mine gold and silver.
Panamint was a boom town founded after silver and copper were found there in 1872.
