Railroads brought supplies and people from the east which made western towns grow
Towns -boom Towns - could grow up quickly due to gold or some other valuable ore being found nearby. But since people then didn't have good methods to survey how much there was, the Towns coul die just as Quick when the mines weent empty.
They were called ghost towns.
There is a Twilight West Virginia, and one in Pennsylvania.
There are towns named Blair in the states of . . . -- Nebraska -- Oklahoma -- South Carolina -- Wisconsin, and -- West Virginia.
There are 10 cities or towns with the name Elkton. There are others with Elkton in it's name such as West Elkton, Ohio.
There are thousands of towns west of the Appalachians.
boom towns
boom towns
The towns known for art, culture and education are cultural towns like shantiniketan in west bengal.
South West England has many thatched dwellings scattered throughout many towns and villages
One thing the Transcontinental Railroad did for the west was eliminating the Oregon Trail. Essentially, you could move to the West (California predominantly) without the hardships, many times death, that came with traveling the Oregon Trail.