Finally , a fire swept through the almost - empty town , and nothing was left of its original forty blocks of buildings .
At its height , there were about 500 settlers living in Liverpool ; by the late 1840s , there were only two families left .
A fire swept through the almost - empty town , and nothing was left of its original forty blocks of buildings .
At its height , there were about 500 settlers living in Liverpool ; by the late 1840s , there were only two families left .