Gamboa

Gamboa is a small town inside the Republic of Panama. It was certainly one of a handful of everlasting Canal Zone townships, constructed to house employees of the Panama Canal and their dependents. The name Gamboa is the call of a tree of the quince own family. Gamboa become built close to the web site of the former village of Santa Cruz. Three miles in addition up the Chagres river was the city of Las Cruces, wherein 19th-century travelers and load disembarked from river barges to take the overland Las Cruces trail through mule.

After the final touch of the Panama Railroad in 1855, the railroad ran close to the region, however made no stops and no PR maps listing any cities in Gamboa's present region. Present-day Gamboa turned into built in 1911, in the course of Canal construction. It turned into initially populated with the aid of "silver roll" employees and their dependents. These initial settlers, counted at round seven-hundred, had previously lived inside the production areas among the former towns of Tabernilla and Gorgona, which have been covered by means of Lake Gatun as Canal construction advanced. No Americans have been counted amongst the metropolis's first inhabitants.