Hopewell Fire Devastates Virginia Mushroom City
Hopewell Virginia a 25 000 resident town built in a week and thriving on wartime orders from the Dupont powder plant was destroyed by fire. The boomtown housed many strangers with rough guards and daily violence and rapid wealth from plant work, now reduced to ashes and ruin.
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