Company town is a place where practically all stores and housing are owned by the one company that is the main employer.
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19 Facts About Company town
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Typically, a company town is isolated from neighbors and centered on a large production factory, such as a lumber or steel mill or an automobile plant, and the citizens of the town either work in the factory, in one of the smaller businesses, or are a family member of someone who does.
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Model company town is concerned with creating a productive and prosperous company.
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The earlier layout of this model company town was planned to suit the undulating topography of the site.
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Bournville represented the union of industry and nature as the company town boasted the attractiveness of the countryside and low-density development defined by well-built and visually appealing dwellings.
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Bolsover Company town developed two exemplary mining communities in Derbyshire during the late nineteenth century, Bolsover and Creswell .
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The Bolsover Company town aimed to provide improved living conditions for the miners and their families in these model industrial villages.
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The Bolsover Company town provided facilities deemed beneficial for employees at both villages including clubhouses, bowling greens, cooperative society stores, cricket pitches and schools.
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Company town commissioned architect Francois Obin and, after his death, Bruno Renard, to build a functional complex in a neoclassical style.
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The town was founded and administered by James Thomas Humberstone's Peru Nitrate Company, later acquired by Compania Salitrera de Tarapaca y Antofagasta, before turning into a ghost town by the 1960s due to the steady decline in the global price of nitrates caused by the development of chemically engineered fertilizers.
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Sewell was a mining Company town intended as both a residential and industrial hub linked to the nearby El Teniente copper mine.
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The difficult geography on which the Company town was erected led to its distinctive appearance, with steep staircases and the absence of streets for vehicular access.
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The Company town relied on three paper mills owned by Kymmene Corporation from the 1870s until 2005 when two mills, Voikkaa and Kuusaa, were shut down, leaving only the Kymi mill operating.
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Kuusankoski's independent status ended in 2009 when the Company town was consolidated into the regional capital, Kouvola.
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Border town Oranjemund, Namibia is a company town owned by Namibian DeBeers .
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The Company town has a diamond mine that was established over 25 years ago and is still ongoing till this day.
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The Company town is staged and is busy readying itself to becoming open to the public.
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MarkCompany town, Clayton Mark's planned worker community, was an example in northwest Indiana.
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