But when things turn sour, the flight of people to a more prosperous town or state leaves that area forlorn - and broke.

At the beginning of the 19th century, it was a prosperous town where cotton, silver and copper were processed.

The site of the prosperous town eventually became farmland.

The business expanded rapidly and soon became the leading drapery in the prosperous town.

Finding many difficulties in the way of making a prosperous town, the project was abandoned, and the site cut up into farms, which were soon opened.