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To: kearnyirish2
That's the way it was in the town of "Tesla" just a few miles east of Google at the turn of the 20th Century. The coal veins gave out and the mines disappeared as did the entire town. They also dug kaolin clay here and made pottery, bricks, and sewer pipe in the same area, but those towns are completely gone, too. Nothing left at all except the Carnegie Off Road Park.

You make a good analogy that this modern "boom town" isn't much different than the old boom towns. I lived in Boom Town Rock Springs, Wyoming for a bit in the early 70s. I stayed in a mobile home. Instead of pulling the nails from the shack, they towed my shack to the next boom town.

Tesla, California is shown below. Yes, even then, the entrepreneur / industrialist who built the coal mine and ceramic works (John Treadwell) named it for the then-new guy named Nikola Tesla, the "Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, physicist, and futurist who is best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current electricity supply system."

"Treadwell planned to use Tesla's invention to send electricity to Bay Area cities from a coal-burning power plant at Tesla. However, this plan never materialized for fear of competing with the new hydroelectric power plants."


18 posted on 03/17/2018 8:50:40 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Great pics and history; thank you! A friend that lived in northern California described hiking in the mountains and coming across a small stone marker indicating where a town with thousands of people had been during the gold rush, and now nothing at all remained. He said there were many places like that.

Along the NY/NJ border were settlements like this related to iron mining, furnaces, and forges; as the mines closed there was no need for the woodcutters that fuels the furnaces & forges, the small farms that fed the workers and draft animals, etc. - they all moved on (with small pockets remaining trying sustenance farming). Those areas are all state park land now, but you can still find the settlements by their stone foundations, old roads, and cemeteries.


23 posted on 03/19/2018 4:11:58 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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