The Welsh migrants of the now-abandoned village of Llanelly arrived in Australia during the 1850s and the 1860s, amidst a population boom in the south-eastern state of Victoria. News of gold discoveries in the region brought thousands of newcomers eager to strike it rich as Victoria and neigh...
Doel is not far from the Belgian port of Antwerp, which gobbled up many similar small towns as it expanded over the decades. More than a thousand people lived there at one point, but now, the abandonedroads of Doelare empty, despite the dozen or so people still clinging to life in the...
Oradour-sur-Glane was a rural village at the heart of France next to the commune towns of Javerdat, Peyrilhac, and Cieux. Unfortunately, on June 10, 1944, German troops carried out a heinous massacre that claimed hundreds of civilian lives in this small village in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine re...
The Berlin Historic District was founded in 1897 as part of the mining boom, but never saw the success of other nearby towns and was largely abandoned by 1911. It's now part of a Nevada State Park. Mint Images RF//Getty Images 18 Kolmanskop, Namibia This town was founded in the Namib...
Towns and cities are usually born as a result of colonisation, exploration and settlement. At other times, towns are born as a result of the discovery of resources. One only has to look at the Victorian gold-rush of the 1800s to see the establishment of towns such as Ballarat and Bendigo...
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One of the worst-hit towns was the town ofBeichuan, in the north of the province. Of all the buildings that stood there, over eighty percent collapsed during the quake. Thoughtfully, the government elected not to demolishthe ruins of Beichuan, and instead decided to preserve the town as a...
The Herkimer Elementary School was built in 1878. It sat on North Washington Street and was replaced by the North school in 1923, according to 'Herkimer County Valley Towns.' The school was renamed in 1956 for Loraine W Bills, the superintendent for 20 years. It closed in 1991 and has...
including cities and towns, and therefore, played an important role in the cultural landscape of the region. The eastward migration and abandonment of the Ahramat Branch could be attributed to gradual movement of the river to the lower-lying adjacent floodplain or tilting of the Nile floodplain ...
The lack of awareness for timely management of the environment surrounding a metal mine site results in several adverse consequences such as rampant business losses, abandoning the bread-earning mining industry, domestic instability and rise in ghost towns, increased environmental pollution, and indirect...