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The actuarial risk, or the potential loss in investment of owning slaves from death, disability, etc. was much greater for small plantation owners. Accentuated by the rise in price of slaves seen just prior to the Civil War , the overall costs associated with owning slaves to the individual plantation owner led to the concentration of slave ...
Colosseum remained in business. [31] In early 2005, the media in Great Britain reported that a woman refusing to take a job as a sex worker might have her unemployment benefits reduced or removed altogether. [32] A similar account had appeared in mid-2003; a woman received a job offer through a private employment agency.
The mining waste was located very near neighborhoods in the town. South Treece Street, 2008. Picher is a ghost town and former city in Ottawa County, northeastern Oklahoma, United States.
Infantile towns, with no clear zoning; Juvenile towns, which have developed an area of shops; Adolescent towns, where factories have started to appear; Early mature towns, with a separate area of high-class housing; Mature towns, with defined industrial, commercial and various types of residential area; The city of Hancock, Michigan along ...
Kingaroy (/ k ɪ ŋ ə ˈ r ɔɪ /) [2] is a rural city and locality in the South Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia. [3] [4] The city is situated on the junction of the D'Aguilar and the Bunya Highways, 218 kilometres (135 mi) north-west of the state capital Brisbane [5] and 141 kilometres (88 mi) south west of Gympie. [6]
Although some deep mining took place as early as the late Tudor period in North East England, and roughly the same time in the Stuart period along the Firth of Forth coast of Scotland, deep shaft mining in Britain began to develop extensively in the late 18th century, with rapid expansion throughout the 19th century and early 20th century when the industry peaked.
Berry, Shelley, Small Towns, Ghost Memories of Oklahoma: A Photographic Narrative of Hamlets and Villages Throughout Oklahoma's Seventy-seven Counties (Virginia Beach, Va.: Donning Company Publishers, 2004). Blake Gumprecht, "A Saloon On Every Corner: Whiskey Towns of Oklahoma Territory, 1889-1907," The Chronicles of Oklahoma 74 (Summer 1996).
Although many small company towns existed in mining areas of Pennsylvania before the American Civil War, one of the most significant and most substantial early company towns in the United States was Pullman, developed in the 1880s just outside the Chicago city limits. The entirely company-owned town provided housing, markets, a library ...