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Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: August 26, 2020
Caption: Boomtowns on the Outskirts Marker
Additional Description: Captions: (top left) Workers and their families needed more than just homes. Boomtowns like Wheeler, shown here, also provided schools, theaters, grocery stores, hardware stores, bars, and restaurants.; (bottom center) Ruby's Place in Wheeler was a popular spot for drinking and dancing.; (upper top right) Like many of the boomtowns that sprang up around Fort Peck Dam, New Deal was named in honor of President Roosevelt.; (lower top right) Boomtown homes were built to be temporary or portable. Most were 10 by 12 foot paper shacks like the one shown here in Park Grove, the only boomtown to survive, April 1935.
Submitted: December 8, 2020, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p555670
File Size: 3.284 Megabytes

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