Question: What did they use as a model for Minetown?
About the article "Hersheypark", section "Minetown".

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Minetown was modeled to resemble a mining town, just as its name says.
The section was officially opened in 1990 with the additions of Convoy, Red Baron, Flying Falcon and Dinosaur-Go-Round.
All except Dinosaur-Go-Round are still in the area; Dinosaur-Go-Round was moved to Founder’s Circle for the 2007 season so the Frog Hoppers could be moved to its location to make room for the Boardwalk.
The section features many classic Hersheypark attractions, including the Sunoco Twin Turnpike, Coal Cracker log flume, Kissing Tower and Great Bear.
It is also home to the Minetown Arcade, Minetown Restaurant, Hersheypark Amphitheater, Hersheypark Aquatheater and the Hersheypark entrance to ZooAmerica.
The Minetown Restaurant is a cafeteria style place, and is the only area in the park where alcohol is served.
This section was named after the oldest operating coaster in the park, Comet, and lies along Spring Creek.
This is one of the oldest areas part of Hersheypark; many rides have come and gone in this area.
The park's first water ride, the Mill Chute installed in 1929, was alongside the creek where Great Bear runs today.
The original location for the bumper cars, then called the Auto Skooters, is now the SooperDooperLooper Sandwich Stop.
There were giant slides on the hill where the Hersheypark Amphitheater is located.
A turnpike ride was located underneath the high bridge that crossed Spring Creek to Minetown.
The park's carousel, before being moved to Carrousel Circle in 1972, was located along the creek adjacent to the station of Comet.
Before SooperDooperLooper came to Comet Hollow in 1977, a Himalaya ride was in that location, and before that, twin Eli Bridge Ferris wheels.
A whip, and a station for the Electric Railroad were also located in Comet Hollow at one time.
One of Hersheypark's most significant floods occurred in 1972 as a result of Hurricane Agnes.
A number of rides were heavily damaged or destroyed as a result.
These rides include the turnpike ride, the Mill Chute and the giant slides.
They were eventually replaced (the Coal Cracker (1973) and Twin Turnpike (1975) were put on higher ground in Minetown, and the Merry Derry Dip Fun Slide was put in Midway America twenty five years later in 1997).
Today, Comet Hollow features three roller coasters, Comet (Hersheypark), Skyrush, and the first looping roller coaster on the East Coast, SooperDooperLooper.
It also houses the Wave Swinger.
Almost all of Great Bear's track courses through Comet Hollow.
Beginning with the 2012 season and renovations being done to this area, the park changed the name of the once 'Comet Hollow' to the now present name of 'The Hollow'. 
The first Europeans to find Nanaimo Bay were those of the 1791 Spanish voyage of Juan Carrasco, under the command of Francisco de Eliza.
They gave it the name "Bocas de Winthuysen".
Nanaimo began as a trading post in the early 19th century; in 1849 the Snuneymuxw chief Ki-et-sa-kun ("Coal Tyee") informed the Hudson's Bay Company of the presence of coal in the area, and in 1853 the company built a fort known as the Nanaimo Bastion (still preserved).
Subsequently the town was chiefly known for the export of coal.
Robert Dunsmuir helped establish coal mines in the Nanaimo harbour area as an employee of the Hudson's Bay Company, and later mined in Nanaimo as one of the first independent miners.
In 1869 Dunsmuir discovered coal several miles North of Nanaimo at Wellington, and subsequently created the company Dunsmuir and Diggle Ltd so he could acquire crown land and finance the startup of what became the Wellington Colliery.
With the success ofDunsmuir and Diggle and the Wellington Colliery, Dunsmuir expanded his operations to include steam railways.
Dunsmuir sold Wellington Coal through its Departure Bay docks, while competing Nanaimo coal was sold by the London-based Vancouver Coal Company through the Nanaimo docks.
The gassy qualities of the coal which made it valuable also made it dangerous.
The 1887 Nanaimo Mine Explosion killed 150 miners and was described as the largest man-made explosion until the Halifax Explosion.
Another 100 men died in another explosion the next year.
In the 1940s, lumber supplanted coal as the main business although Minetown Days are still celebrated in the neighbouring community of Lantzville. 
The Mini-Comet was an oval shaped kiddie coaster.
The trains were painted blue, while the track was painted red.
It operated in two locations in Hersheypark; near the Comet in Comet Hollow and in Minetown next to the Himalaya.
Very little information is known about the ride, and there are very few pictures, however a video of the ride from 1976 can be found here VIDEOCharles J. Jacques wrote in his book "Sweetness of Success" that it was an Allen Herschel built ride.
However, based on a picture from 1978, it appears to be a Carl Miler ride.
What is definitively known about Mini-Comet is that it is shown on Hersheypark's 1975 and 1977 maps, but not on the 1974 or 1980 maps.
The name was also thought to be "Little Comet", but park maps showing the ride say "Mini-Comet.
"The ride was in at least two locations in the park.
In 1975, it was in Comet Hollow on the west bank of Spring Creek between the high bridge and the ride Mini-Comet was named for, The Comet.
It was relocated to the current Minetown area of the park, adjacent to a kiddie ride (Outboard MotorBoats), in 1976.
It was shown on both the 1977 and 1978 park maps.
In 1979 and beyond, it was no longer in the park. 
Lantzville was originally a mining town and is named after its American founder, Fraser Harry Lantz.
To remember its history Lantzville annually celebrates Minetown Day (A community fair).
According to Lantzville: The First Hundred Years, the first European settler in the area was an English Coal Miner named Emanuel Wiles, also known as Robert Emanuel or Bob.
Lantzville is a tourist destination with a number of well located Bed and breakfast operations.