The Bolsover Company developed two exemplary mining communities in Derbyshire during the late nineteenth century, Bolsover (1891) and Creswell (1896).
•
The creation of model company towns was particularly evident in Britain during the latter half of the nineteenth century with the creation of Saltaire (1851), Bournville, Port Sunlight, Creswell and New Earswick (1901) and coincided with the housing-reform movement, which emphasised the improvement of housing for the working class.
•
One famous company town was McDonald, Ohio, which was created by the Carnegie Steel Company to house and serve the needs of its employees in the Youngstown, Ohio, area.
American Broadcasting Company | Cape Town | Fox Broadcasting Company | Ford Motor Company | The Walt Disney Company | Royal Shakespeare Company | town | Hudson's Bay Company | East India Company | Gotha (town) | Dutch East India Company | McKinsey & Company | University of Cape Town | H. J. Heinz Company | Company | Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company | company | Bad Company | production company | Camden Town | Three's Company | Huddersfield Town F.C. | Shell Oil Company | Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company | Glenn L. Martin Company | The Coca-Cola Company | Swindon Town F.C. | Southern Pacific Transportation Company | Ipswich Town F.C. | Pullman Company |
Gould contributed to the U.S. effort in World War I, by designing a 3,000-worker community in Washington as a company town supporting the Spruce Production Division.
The sugar cane plantation they built virtually became a company town, and eventually had its own rail line, workers' housing, transportation fleet, commissary, and private—later public—airport (Ponce's Mercedita Airport).
Fernwood was developed in the late 1880s by the Enochs family as a company town for Fernwood Lumber Company.
A large part of the venture was the construction of a planned company town at Redstone, where the coke ovens were.
Royalton was established as a company town some time around 1912 by the Dawkins Log & Mill Company, a Canadian based lumber company financed by the Royal Bank of Canada for which the town is named.
He founded the company town of Spreckels, California, just south of the city of Salinas, California, in 1897, but his descendants began to relinquish control when they started selling homes in the community to the public c.
A 3,000-worker community in Washington was designed as a company town by architect Carl F. Gould.
Table Rock was built in the late 1970s by Colorado Interstate Gas (CIG) as a company town, to house workers during an area boom and housing shortage.
The 1845 mill no longer exists in its original configuration but its location remains the site of Woolrich's main operations, which developed into a company town now known as Woolrich, Pennsylvania.
Yamburg is a company town, and the vast majority of its 5,000–6,000 inhabitants are employees of Gazprom.
Also in 1913, unfavorable commuting conditions prompted the Associated Oil Company to build a company town called the Avon Village and by 1920 consisted of 65 cottages, a one-room schoolhouse, worker's bunkhouse, a dining hall and a clubhouse that included an indoor swimming pool, auditorium and a two-lane bowling alley which serves today as the Refinery Museum.
Then, most notably, the early 1950s brought the Cassiar Asbestos Mine, which operated from 1953 until 1992 and produced the company town of Cassiar.
In 1917, the United States Shipping Board provided a government loan to the Pacific Coast Shipbuilding Company to build a company town.
Dawson was a coal mining company town founded in 1901 when rancher John Barkley Dawson sold his coal-rich land in northern New Mexico to the Dawson Fuel Company.
Cattleman Bartlett Richards began assembling the expansive Spade Ranch in the same year, making Ellsworth a company town for the ranch.
Harvey was originally intended as a model town for Christian values and was one of the Temperance Towns; it was closely modeled after the company town of Pullman, which eventually was annexed into the city of Chicago.
# 12 February 1975: "Where Are You Goin' Company Town?" (Ian McLaren producer; Stephen Dewar director), set in Trail, British Columbia, concerning the relationship between management and employees at the dominant employer Cominco.
Ruth ceased being a company town in 1955 when the houses were sold to the John W. Galbreath Company.
In the mid-1920s, he and his brother planned the oil company town of Parco, Wyoming (now Sinclair) and designed many buildings there, in a uniform Spanish Colonial style intended to encourage community spirit.
Operated by the Victorian Railways and successors, the line served the State Electricity Commission of Victoria operated Yallourn Power Station, open cut mine, and briquette factory complex; as well as the adjacent company town of Yallourn.