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Where the Tin Went, Gambling Followed

Tin brought the workers. Gambling houses followed the camps. This is a town-by-town record of what remains.

Two valleys, one boom

The Kinta Valley around Ipoh and parts of the Klang Valley both grew rapidly during the 19th-century tin boom, and gambling houses were part of camp life for the labour force, mostly Chinese migrant workers.

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See documented and partially documented settlements in the town archive.