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Black Boom Towns
Blackdom, New Mexico
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Blackdom is a historic freedom colony[2] in Chaves County, New Mexico, United States with a population of 300 at its height in 1908[2] that was founded by African-American settlers in 1901 and abandoned in the mid-1920s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_freedmen%27s_towns
List of freedmen's towns
A historically African-American municipality, known in various areas as "freedmen's town", "freedom towns", or "all-Black towns", are municipalities which were established by or for a predominantly African-American populace.[1] Many of these municipalities were established or populated by freed slaves[2] either during or after the period of legal slavery in the United States in the 19th century.[3]
https://travelnoire.com/black-american-towns-hidden
5 Black American Towns Hidden Under Lakes And Ultimately From History Books
https://www.messynessychic.com/2017/03/29/once-a-californian-boom-town-now-a-sunken-city-at-the-bottom-of-a-lake/
Once a Californian Boom Town, Now a Sunken City at the Bottom of a Lake
At one time Kennett, Ca, had 40 saloons, dozens of trade stores, a hotel, hospital, a schoolhouse– it even had an opera house– that is, before it was sitting at the bottom of the huge man-made Lake Shasta. Kennett is now completely invisible, buried as deep as 400 feet below the water’s surface. There is no record of any public hearings to ask Kennett residents their opinion. Kennett might not be the lost city of Atlantis,