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Old Posted Jun 11, 2012, 6:56 PM
TarHeelJ TarHeelJ is offline
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Originally Posted by tech12 View Post
Yeah it was pretty sizable, with around 40,000 residents in 1855. It's hard to believe that just 10 years earlier, the city had fewer than 1,000 residents (and jumped from 1,000 to 25,000 in the single year from 1848 to 1849).
Yeah, the discovery of gold will do that for a city. SF's population increased from 200 to 36,000 in 6 years (1846 to 1852).
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