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Brownstown became the county seat of Jackson County in November 1816, replacing Fort Vallonia, which had only been the county seat since June of that year.
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Brownstown and county
The county seat is Brownstown.
Brownstown and Jackson
Brownstown is a town in Brownstown Township, Jackson County, Indiana, United States.
The land for the Jackson County Court House, which rests in the heart of Brownstown on the square, was donated by Col. John Ketcham ( 1782 – 1865 ) for this specific function.
* Brownstown Township, Jackson County, Indiana
Brownstown and County
Brownstown is a borough in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Brownstown is a village in Fayette County, Illinois, United States.
The Jefferson Avenue-Huron River Bridge spans the Huron River, connecting Berlin to Brownstown Charter Township in Wayne County.
Brownstown Charter Township is a charter township of Wayne County in the U. S. state of Michigan.
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Westward, Jefferson Avenue passes under the Cobo Center and by Joe Louis Arena, then it passes through the Downriver communities, Brownstown Township and Berlin Township, intersecting with roads leading to bridges to Grosse Ile ( Grosse Ile Parkway in Trenton leading up to Wayne County Bridge and Bridge Road in Riverview leading up to Grosse Ile Toll Bridge ).
Brownstown and 1816
The town of Brownstown was founded 8 April 1816, notably prior to the statehood of Indiana itself.
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The main route through Brownstown is Pennsylvania Route 772 ( South State Street ), which runs through the center of Brownstown.
On 4 August, British troops under Captain ( local Major ) Adam Muir of the 41st Regiment and Indians under Tecumseh and Roundhead defeated a detachment which Hull had sent to collect these supplies at the Battle of Brownstown.
Brownstown and .
It is located west of Brownstown on T 797, near the Warwick and West Earl Townships.
Brownstown is located at ( 38. 995403 ,-88. 953217 ).
The town historically was located at the confluence of two small rivers, Bird Dog Creek and Brownstown Creek, with the Blue River, Indiana, before the town's relocation.
Brownstown is located at ( 38. 879823 ,-86. 046163 ).
Brownstown lies on the East Fork of the White River, bordered by the Jackson-Washington State Forest and very near the Hoosier National Forest.
On the other side of the Huron River, the township is bordered by Wayne County's Brownstown Township, Rockwood, and Flat Rock.
The region now known as Brownstown was, like surrounding areas in Michigan, once a part of the French Province Quebec.
This made Brownstown one of Wayne County's nine original townships.
As of 2010 the population of Brownstown Township was 30, 627.
Brownstown Charter Township Public Schools are part of the Woodhaven-Brownstown School District.
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Pasley continued: `` They became an institution of the Chicago scene and marked the way to the moral and financial collapse of the municipal and county governments in 1928-29 ''.
The Reed Rogers Da Fonta Wild Life Sanctuary in Marin county on Friday officially became the property of the National Audubon Society.
Angus was historically a county ( known officially as Forfarshire from the 18th century until 1928, when it reverted to its ancient name ) until 1975 when it became a district of the Tayside Region.
In 1974 the area became part of the borough of Torfaen, in the new local government county of Gwent.
* John James Maximilian Oertel ( 1811 – 1882 ), born in Ansbach, was a Lutheran clergyman who later converted to Roman Catholicism, became a professor of German at Fordham University in the United States, and later edited and founded several newspapers in the United States, including one that would become the leading German-language newspaper in the county, Baltimore's Kirchenzeitung.
On 1 January 2007, the municipality lost its short-lived ( 2003 until 2006 ) county privileges and became part of Region Hovedstaden ( i. e. the Copenhagen Capital Region ).
They, therefore, often contained pre-existing municipal boroughs, which thereafter became part of the second tier of local government, below the administrative counties and county boroughs.
When the new metropolitan counties ( Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Tyne & Wear, West Midlands, South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire ) were created in 1974, their sub-divisions also became metropolitan boroughs ; in many cases these metropolitan boroughs recapitulated abolished county boroughs ( for example, Stockport ).
With the abolition of the metropolitan county councils in 1986, these metropolitan boroughs became independent, and continue to be so at present.
Cadillac became the county seat after the so-called " Battle of Manton ," in which a show of force was involved in enforcing a controversial decision to move the county seat from Manton, Michigan.
The concept of a county town eventually became detached from its original meaning of where the county administration is based ( see County halls below ).
It became the county seat of Norfolk County.
In the 14th century, the county of Flanders reached its maximum size, and became the wealthiest part of the Seventeen Provinces.
In the Georgian era, patronage of such seaside places ( such as nearby Brighton ) gave it a new lease of life so that, when the time came with the reform of English local government in 1888, Hastings became a County Borough, responsible for all its local services, independent of the surrounding county, then Sussex ( East ); less than one hundred years later, in 1974, that status was abolished.
On the conquered part of Albania, which territory stretched between Mat River on the north and Çameria to the south, Ottoman Empire established the Sanjak of Albania and in 1419 Gjirokastra became the county town of the Sanjak of Albania.
Upon the partition of Ireland in 1921, the county became one of the basic land divisions employed, along with county boroughs.
In 1806, Nashville was incorporated as a city and became the county seat of Davidson County, Tennessee.
Under the Frankish rule, Parma became the capital of a county ( 774 ).
In 930 Pisa became the county centre ( status it maintained until the arrival of Otto I ) within the mark of Tuscia.
Similarly Cornwall was a British kingdom before it became an English county.
From the Yuan Dynasty in 1292 until Shanghai officially became a city in 1927, the area was designated merely as a county seat administered by the Songjiang prefecture.
The title of shogun in Japan meant a military leader equivalent to general, and at various times in the first millennium shoguns held temporary power, but it became a symbol of military control over the county.
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