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Recent Examples of company town from the Web
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At its zenith, 600 miners lived in this company town, eventually digging 70 miles of tunnels in the mountain above the mill.
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Railroad car magnate George Pullman built a company town for his employees south of Chicago in the early 1890s.
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Twenty six years after his death, what was once a sleepy company town has become a mecca for luxury-home buyers.
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Lost Hills is now the ultimate company town; everything is branded.
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Moccasin is what’s known as a company town, where almost all of the homes are owned by the city and county of San Francisco, operated to supply housing for workers on the city’s Hetch Hetchy Project.
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Aetna formerly housed an explosives manufacturer, the Aetna Powder Co., and was a company town that predated Gary's 1906 incorporation by 25 years.
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This would represent the very essence of a company town.
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Growing up in a steel town amid segregation U.S. Steel established Fairfield, Ala., as a company town in the early 1910s.
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First Known Use of company town
1927
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