By the mid nineteenth century, the industrial iron community of Birds-Borough had developed into distinctly organized neighborhoods, each with its own pride, identity, ethnic character, and special title, and each containing schools, churches, and even individual sports teams. Over time these nicknames endured and the areas continued to be recognized as well defined neighborhoods. Little Italy lay west along the canal and the Schuylkill from the river bridge to the far end of the borough. Beidlertown occupied a small portion of West First Street that had once been pasture for Reuben Beidler's dairy herd. Brooklyn, formerly called Irishtown, was renamed to honor the Brooke family. Silvertown referred to the hilly area of Jefferson Street, where a small vein of silver was rumored to exist. During construction of the Wilmington and Northern rail line in the eighteen sixties and seventies, Mexicans were hired as laborers and most camped along Hay Creek in the south part of town, leading the site to be called Mexico and the adjacent stream the Rio Grande. Shireytown, stretching from Main Street to Hay Creek, took its name from the Shirey family, former landowners. Oklahoma was developed in the year Oklahoma became a state. Lincolntown, including Spruce and Walnut Streets, occupied land that had been the Lincoln farm. Cinderbank marked the place where slag and cinders from Furnace Number Two, the Keystone Furnace, were deposited. Shantytown stood south of the company homes on Mill Street, where small cabins housed workers of the Brooke Iron Company. Texas was a small grouping of houses south of Mexico.