USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Whenever gold was discovered in a new place, miners would move in and make a mining camp. Sometimes these camps would rapidly grow into towns called boomtowns. The cities of San Francisco and Columbia are two examples of boomtowns during the gold rush . A lot of boomtowns eventually turned into abandoned ghost towns.

Detailed explanation-2: -Boom towns Some were built near gold or silver mines or were built near forests to feed the timber trade. When the gold and silver disappeared or if all the trees had been cut, the people moved on. All that was left was an empty town with a lonely cemetery, and this became known as a ghost town.

Detailed explanation-3: -The massive migration of people to the American West during the gold rush required building towns to house people. However, when all the gold and other resources in an area were depleted, the towns were often deserted. These deserted towns were called ghost towns.