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First the miners set up tent camps then merchants come and set up shops soon more and more people come and shops such as barbershops, banks, clothes stores, ect. start being built. Eventually when houses are built and people start coming.

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The discovery of gold and oil led to the start of boomtowns in America. Once resources are gone so is the boomtown.

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