The Boomtown Goes Bust

... Atlantic Seaboard the Erie Canal was the only way to go. Drifting along, you would soon find yourself in Rochester, New York. How attractive the youthful enthusiasm of the nation's first boomtown must have been to a wandering traveler seeking their ...

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