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Boulder City, Nevada, was built as a semi-permanent town in 1931 to house 5,000 working on the Hoover Dam. The Wikipedia entry says the city "was exceptionall
by tobych 10y ago
Boulder City, Nevada, was built as a semi-permanent town in 1931 to house 5,000 working on the Hoover Dam.
The Wikipedia entry says the city "was exceptionally rare as an example of a town fully planned under government supervision. This is unlike 19th century privately funded company town examples found in the United Kingdom, such as Port Sunlight, or in the United States, such as Pullman, Chicago."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulder_City,_Nevada https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulder_City,_Nevada
The thing that fascinates me about company and government towns is the rules the residents ended up having to follow. In Boulder City, no drinking, prostitution or gambling. In Saltaire, UK, no hanging washing on a line, or "Gatherings or loitering of more than eight persons in the streets".
http://www.saltairevillageexperience.co.uk/rules-for-living-in-saltaire-village-1853-1876/ http://www.saltairevillageexperience.co.uk/rules-for-living-...
- vogt 10y agoBoulder City has retained status as an anti-gaming community despite being not much other than a quiet retiree town these days, and work on the Hoover Dam being complete for a long time now.