Top 10 towns devastated by a single employer or industry.
Feb 27, 2020What's going on? Everyone, welcome back to the world according to Briggs, have you ever wondered how a city collapses or becomes a ghost town? I know, so I read a little. There are more than a few reasons why a city fails. Sometimes it's things like a natural disaster or it could be a man-made disaster like Centralia Pennsylvania it's a fire of mine most of the time it's the closing of a business that the city depended on sometimes it's gradual and sometimes it's the overnight in my missing persons video I talked about an entire town that just up and left a couple of weeks ago during the Depression that kind of thing happened a lot of industries just disappeared and the people too but this was a bit strange because no one knew anyone was leaving, everyone just left, the United States is full.
With cities boom and bust throughout our history, there are some cities right now that are struggling to stay afloat because an
industry
failed in that area. Detroit is a perfect example for improvement, but they are almost a ghost city for a long time. Today's list is about ten cities that disappeared because of asingle
company orindustry
that they depended on for work. Simply put, they are company cities that failed when the company closed. Now I will tell you from the beginning that these cities have very little presence on the Internet so far. As for photos and videos, I will use some images of the area as best I can, so don't expect photos of the city, some of them have disappeared since the depression.That being said, why don't we take a look at me? ten major cities destroyed by the loss of a
single
employer
number ten gray Sonia Arkansas the arkadelphia lumber company gray Sonia was once home to the largest sawmill in the South it had over a thousand workers handling its lumber gray Sonia was built by the founder of arkadelphia Lumber Company William Grayson in 1907 yes, he named after him a town that had a fire station, several hundred houses, a restaurant, a cafeteria, three hotels, a theater, a school, a church, a running water system , a baseball field, a park and electricity, life was good and gray, Sonia, that's how it was. until the Great Depressiondevastated
the place, Arkadelphia went bankrupt and an entire town was out of work in 1951, the last resident was gone, his name was Charlie, no one told him they were leaving, he showed up to softball practice and there was no one there now.Few structures remain on an old railway bridge, but that's all, the rest is just a memory. If you look at Google Maps, you can see the outline of some of the buildings, but that's about it. Number nine, Mark Town, Indiana, the Mark Manufacturing company built more. More than a century ago by industrialist Clayton Mark, who manufactured steel tubes and pipes. Mark Town was built to support its workers. It doesn't seem like a bad deal from everything I've read. You get paid and you have a nice house. These houses were beautiful. Not a dilapidated tent city the houses were made of brick and finished with stucco and painted bright colors they all had running water coal fired furnaces and a basement full of all the beads it was a good place to live here is what It's still there more or less Now we're part of a city called East Chicago Indiana, not too far away, it's like between Gary Indiana and Chicago, anyway, if you look at it from Google Earth, you have this little green spot in the middle of this big industrial area, it seems a bit strange.
I checked and there are a couple of 3 bed, 1 bath homes for sale here, all for under $30,000. I was thinking, wow, that's a good deal, they don't look bad once you get past the boarded up windows and then I saw the photos of the interior. It looked like they caught a crazy guy in there with nothing but whiskey, a sledgehammer, and a box of spray paint. now at its peak, 14,000 people lived here these days, it's about 3,000 and there are fewer and fewer cities. 200 houses. We were almost destroyed by a road project a few years ago, a lot of the houses are in disrepair, but they have torn down a couple of them to create a nice little green space and, you know, park near the number eight refineries Bruceton Tennessee , the company.
Henry I Siegel, The Henry I Segal Company, used to manufacture jeans and suits in three plants in Bruceton Tennessee, employing more people than the city really had to offer at its peak, they had 1,700 people in the 1980s working in the three different floors where the city's population was. there were only about 1400 at the time so you know they came from other communities well the town was booming for years everyone had a job who wanted a job and the jobs were well paid. Things changed in the late 1980s and fewer and fewer people had jobs the plant laid off its last 55 workers in 2000 the plants are empty and growing vines now the bank is gone two supermarkets clothing stores are gone a pharmacy is gone The only thing that survives in 2005, Ohio-based Purity Foods moved here, but since then, the population has been declining for years and the future looks pretty bleak these days.
Anyone still living here is probably retired from Social Security or working out of town. Number Seven, Livermore, New Hampshire, Grafton County Lumber Company. Lumber
towns
live fast. and die young as a goldfish Founded in 1876 by a pair of lumber baron brothers, Daniel and Charles Saunders, the town was named for Samuel Livermore, a former United States senator who was the grandfather of Daniel Saunders' wife. The city of Livermore suffered from serious mismanagement. fires floods storms and deforestation until the last mill closed in 1926 the population fell from around 200 in 1900 to around 23 in 1930 in 1949 the last resident left but look at this in the 2000 census three people lived there I don't know what It had been 50 years since the place had had residents, I mean, apart from the occasional hippie commune in the 1960s or something, do you know what an air B&B or untapped business hippie commune timeshare is? ?In fact, I wonder if you can get a loan for it anyway, as far as the three people who lived there in 2000, I imagine some census worker was having a slow day and saw three homeless people walking down a road of land when it passed a place where you go in the book today, the surrounding forest has taken over. No news about vagabonds number six of Batsto Village, New Jersey, the Batsto Ironworks company back in 1766, Batsto Ironworks used swamps or excavations in the nearby river beds and banks to make household pots and teapots, if ever there were seen rusty. mud in a stream, swamp or pond that has seen swamp or also began manufacturing supplies for the Continental Army during the American Revolution, but spent more than a century later producing household goods and giving employees management of the barns and company blacksmith shop stables.
In the mid-19th century, demand for iron declined and batsto turned to glass making, which didn't last long because people still didn't smoke much weed, so there wasn't really a need for glassblowing. every 5 stoners in their twenties want to be a professional glass blower I don't know how many have come across that they say that to me is very strange anyway so soon batsto went bankrupt and had a bunch of glass blowers with no glass to blow the last permanent resident left in 1989 and the town of batsto has been a new jersey historic site since number 5 second colorado the colorado fuel and iron company the story of a coal and iron mining town is the story of a dying town and that is the story of Segundo Colorado Segundo are actually two different places thanks to the position of a couple of mines, this is another town that depended on iron mining and, as the demand for iron decreased, so did the need to keep iron miners employed last seconds. mining operation closed in 1960 Segundo actually means second in Spanish, like so everything is fine, anyway, keep going, there's nothing here but mining, if you weren't a miner in this town, you'd be the wife or the son of a miner on his It is believed that Segundo Peak had around six or seven hundred residents today, the population has fallen below 100 and some people who come here do so to hike and observe wildlife and that is all Second is a dying city number four Pullman Illinois the company the Pullman Palace automobile company in 1884 George Pullman built a manufacturing complex and a city on approximately four thousand acres of land south of Chicago, this was to house his employees who They made their luxury sleeping cars, while the plan was to keep the workers happy, which would increase productivity and draw skilled workers away from Chicago, it didn't quite work out that way, the city had over a thousand houses with yards, indoor plumbing, gas and daily garbage collection, and attracted about 12,000 residents;
However, the disadvantage was that workers could only rent their houses. They could be evicted at any time They couldn't hold meetings They couldn't go to bars and they couldn't read books or see shows other than those offered by the city library or theater Does anyone get the feeling that George Pullman was a little shy? ? A control freak when Pullman cut wages after an economic downturn in 1894, a workers' strike turned violent and, as a result, federal troops were called in to tear things down after Pullman himself died in 1897. Illinois demanded to the company that sold the city in 1889.
Annexed to the South Side of Chicago, the neighborhood entered a slow decline and the factory finally closed in 1957. It took a while for the neighborhood to recover, but it was declared a national monument in 2015, for which is great, number three Lynch Kentucky, the company. Us, cold and coked, hidden in the hills outside of Cumberland, Kentucky, here, the little town of Lynch, wasn't always a small town, in fact, it was a good sized town for many years and everyone worked for us , coal and coke. This coke is a mineral, not a drink or party drug, which was extremely popular in the 1980s.
Lynch was built in 1917 by US Coke and Coke, a subsidiary of US Steel. This town had a population of about 10,000 people in the 1940s. It had its own grocery store. theater, hospital and hotel, even in 1980, almost 1600 people still lived there; However, in 2016 there were less than 700 residents, this is another one of those situations where most of the people living in Lynch are retired or have a good commute out of town for work. Now they have a mental tour, if that's your thing you can take a look at Lynch's mining past as his future continues to dwindle, so there's a great opportunity to buy a house here, get a good mortgage and need some sunscreen .
I'm sure homeowners insurance is very cheap here number two Thompson Springs Utah, the company that the coal mining company was established as a ranching town in the 1880s Thompson Springs got a boost when coal mining began. coal in a canyon north of the city in 1911 that year. The railroad line branched from the tracks passing through Thompson Springs to the mine itself, the town was booming and everyone had a new pickaxe and Hammer the town was served by several passenger rail lines for much of the town's history in 1996. Amtrak moved the last of its local services, the nearby Green River, virtually ending any reason anyone would need to visit Thompson Springs.
I'll tell you who should visit Thompson Springs, a junk removal company, this place is a joke, most of the yards seem to run like a in the junkyard everyone seems to have a broken down trailer too. I don't know, it's about the mind shutting down in the '50s. Interstate 70 takes commuters out of town in 1970. Rail service will disappear in the '90s. Thompson Springs spent the last couple of decades withering and dying. Like a grape without water, according to the 2010 census, only 39 residents remain. I don't know if you can find them among all that junk and the number one Gillman Colorado, the Eagle mining company. founded by judge and prospector John Clinton in 1886, you know, I read a lot of history about this country and one of the most common titles that a successful person has since the 19th century is judge.
Everyone seems to be a judge somewhere, one of whom has something to do with it. What does it have to do with his success? Who knows? The city got a railroad boom in 1899 and rode the silver boom like a wild horse. Gilman had his own newspaper, a boarding house and a school. The mines were active until the 1970s and the town finally got a clinic and grocery store.shop in a bowling alley with only two lanes, so no big tournaments are held there; However, years of poor mining technique led the Environmental Protection Agency to completely evacuate the town in 1984 and declare it a Superfund site in 1986.
It took 24 years to clean up the site. but it's been over a decade since it was supposed to become a ski resort, that project cleared an EPA hurdle in 2018, so maybe no changes will come, who knows if they start a resort here. I'm going to we'll all have A big meeting, well those are my top ten cities destroyed by losing a single
employer
. I hope you enjoyed it. I hope you got some information. This one is quite interesting. Anyway I liked it. Don't forget all the links below. give the video a big thumbs up tell me what you thought of the video if you haven't subscribed please do so and hit that little bell notification so you know when I upload it.Have a great day everyone, be kind to each other.
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