Founded by Aaron Levy in 1786, and named for him, The town's orderly planned and aligned streets were designed that the town might one day be the county seat.

Founded in 1895, the Beaux-Arts building, designed by McKim, Mead and White, was planned to be the largest art museum in the world.

Founded in 1910, Frohnau was created whole as a planned community, corresponding to the early twentieth century idea of a Garden City.

Founded in January 1995, ICO Global Communications, planned to build an MSS constellation in medium earth orbit ( in two 45 °- inclined orthogonal planes ), and had contracted Boeing Satellite Systems ( then Hughes ) for 12 spacecraft in July of that year — ten operational spacecraft and two in-orbit spares.

Founded by the Herrick family during the early part of the 20th century, Tecumseh Products initially began business manufacturing refrigeration compressors.

Founded in 1805 on the West and Middle Branches of the Nimishillen Creek, Canton became a manufacturing center because of its numerous railroad lines.

Founded in 1957 as Fairchild Camera and Instrument ( NYSE stock symbol FCI ), it was a pioneer in transistor and integrated circuit manufacturing.

Founded in Massachusetts in 1983, CNC Software, Inc. is one of the oldest developers of PC-based computer-aided design / computer-aided manufacturing ( CAD / CAM ) software.

Founded in 1816 by Eliphalet Remington in Ilion, New York, on March 1, 1873 it started manufacturing the first commercial typewriter.

Founded in 1860 as a pattern manufacturing company, by 1873 David Brown had focused on gear systems, and by 1898 was specialising in machine cut gears.

Founded in 1939 Peterbilt operates manufacturing facilities in Denton, Texas ( 1980 ), and Sainte-Thérèse, Quebec.

Founded in 1980, it specialises in manufacturing ultrafiltration membranes and provides engineering support for its worldwide plants.

Founded in 1888 by Dr. Theodore Corson Wheaton, it became a mainstay of the economy of southern New Jersey, which gained a reputation as the center of commercial glass manufacturing in the United States.

Founded as a trading company in 1963 by Tan Sri Quek Leng Chan, the company controls 14 listed companies involved in the financial services, manufacturing, distribution, property and infrastructure development.

Founded in 1937, The Society of the Plastics Industry, Inc. is the trade association representing one of the largest manufacturing industries in the United States.

Founded in 1979, Plexus provides product design, test, manufacturing, fulfillment and aftermarket services to its customers.

Founded in San Francisco in 1886 as Pacific Lighting, the company bought several small gas manufacturing and distribution companies in the area, including the Los Angeles Gas Company in 1890.

Founded in 1969, they began manufacturing pre-amps before building complete instruments.

Founded in 1908, Reed is a residential college with a campus located in Portland's Eastmoreland neighborhood, featuring architecture based on the Tudor-Gothic style, and a forested canyon nature preserve at its center.

Founded near historic Native American settlements as a trading and transportation center, the city rose to prominence when it was named the capital of the Minnesota Territory in 1849.

Founded in 1863, the Brooklyn Historical Society ( BHS ) is a museum, library, and educational center dedicated to preserving and encouraging the study of Brooklyn's history.

Founded in 1880 on the Missouri River opposite Fort Pierre, Pierre has been the capital since South Dakota gained statehood on November 11, 1889, having been chosen for its location in the geographic center of the state.

Founded in 1820, Columbia served as a major trading center for communities throughout the Wiregrass Region of Alabama between 1822-1833.

Founded as the Junior Agricultural School of Central Arkansas in 1927, Arkansas State University Beebe's campus has evolved and grown to become a center for long-distance learning and technical trade programs in central Arkansas.

Founded in 1881, the New Canaan Fire Department is a combination professional / volunteer fire department that operates out of a fire station located near the center of town, with a fire apparatus fleet of engines and other vehicles.

Founded in 1834 Tiskilwa emerged as a regional economic and cultural center integrating its own administrative capacities, schools, churches and shops serving a small population of townspeople and farm families from the surrounding 3 to 5 miles.

Located at the intersections of Interstate 55, Historic Route 66, and U. S. Route 24. Founded in 1854 by Mathew T. Scott, Chenoa was created to provide a retail and trade center for his farm tenants as well as a grain shipping facility.

Founded in 1892 as a rail center, the Village of Depew was incorporated on July 23, 1894.

Founded in 1873 as an iron and coal producing center, the city was named after founder Harvey Wells, a member of the Ohio Constitutional Convention.

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Founded in 1936 as the School of Industrial Art, it moved to its present location in the center of the city's design district in September 1960, and offers a traditional academic education, augmented with advanced courses in the professional arts.

Founded in 1892 as a world center for the preservation of books relating to Jewish thought and culture, it assumed the additional functions of a general university library in 1920.

Founded in the 12th century by Archbishop Konrad I of Salzburg, now harbors a conference center

Founded in 1719, Litchfield was designated the county seat in 1751, and by the 1790s the town had become the leading commercial, social, cultural and legal center of Northwestern Connecticut.

Founded about 1820, the community grew as a bustling export center for cotton and sugar cane produced in Pointe Coupee Parish.

Founded in 1975 by Frances Moore Lappé and Joseph Collins, it describes itself as a " people's think tank and education-for-action center ".

Founded in 2004, Goethe Business School ( GBS ) is the center for management education of Frankfurt University.

Founded in January 2002, the Center for E-Commerce Infrastructure Development ( CECID ) is a research and development center in the University of Hong Kong committed to promoting e-commerce infrastructure development and standardization.

Founded in 2009, this center is located in downtown New Kensington.

Founded in 1942, it is the largest comprehensive children ’ s hospital in China, as well as the national paediatrics base, paediatric disease prevention, and a treatment center with the collaboration of WHO and UN Children Found.

Founded by a merger arranged by the Fascist regime in 1927, Roma have participated in the top-tier of Italian football for all of their existence but one season in the early 50s ( 1951 – 52 ).

Founded on 4 February 1862, and family-owned for the past seven generations, Bacardi now employs nearly 6, 000 people, manufactures its brands at 27 facilities in 16 markets on four continents, with sales in more than 150 countries.

Founded in 1917 as the ( DNA, " German Standardisation Committee ") in 1926 to reflect that the organization now dealt with standardization issues in many fields ; viz., not just for industrial products.

Ed Founded " The International Frisbee Association ( IFA )" and began establishing standards for various sports using the Frisbee such as Distance, Flying disc freestyle and Guts.

Founded to preach the Gospel and to combat heresy, the order is famed for its intellectual tradition, having produced many leading theologians and philosophers.

Founded by Danny Boy in early 2006, La Coka Nostra reunited him, Everlast and DJ Lethal for the first time since House of Pain's split.

Founded by former social-democrat party strongman Jan Nagel, it was initially held at bay for alderman positions.

Founded in 1903 by a group of high school students, the club was named Hellas ( the Greek word for Greece ), at the request of a professor of Classics.

Founded in 1998 to provide a non-political arena to discuss and implement changes to the profession of Hypnotherapy, UKCHO currently represents 9 of the UK's professional hypnotherapy organisations and has developed standards of training for hypnotherapists, along with codes of conduct and practice that all UKCHO registered hypnotherapists are governed by.

Founded in 1858 and coeducational from its start, ISU is classified as a Research University with very high research activity ( RU / VH ) by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

Founded the De Beers Mining Company and owned the British South Africa Company, which established Rhodesia for itself.

James Madison University ( also known as JMU, Madison, or James Madison ) is a public coeducational research university located in Harrisonburg, Virginia, U. S. Founded in 1908 as the State Normal and Industrial School for Women at Harrisonburg, the university has undergone four name changes before settling with James Madison University.

Founded in Cleator, Cumbria, England in 1938 by Jaques Spreiregen, Kangol ( the K from silk, the ANG from angora, the OL from wool ) produced hats for workers, golfers, and especially soldiers.

Founded by Charlemagne in 805 as Magadoburg ( probably from Old High German magado for big, mighty and burga for fortress ), the town was fortified in 919 by King Henry I the Fowler against the Magyars and Slavs.

The full title was A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles ; Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by The Philological Society ; the 352-page volume, words from A to Ant, cost 12s. 6d ( equivalent to £ 265 for 2010 ) or ( US $ 3. 25 ) at the time.

* Society for Psychical Research Founded in 1882, the SPR was the first society to conduct organised scholarly research into parapsychology and other human experiences that challenge contemporary scientific models.

Founded by German merchant Georg Wertheim ( 1857 – 1939 ), designed by architect Alfred Messel ( 1853 – 1909 ), opened in 1897 and extended several times over the following 40 years, it ultimately possessed a floor area double that of the Reichstag, a 330-metre-long granite and plate glass facade along Leipziger Straße, 83 elevators, three escalators, 1, 000 telephones, 10, 000 lamps, five kilometres of pneumatic tubing for moving items from the various departments to the packing area, and a separate entrance directly from the nearby U-Bahn station.

Founded in the fifth century, the monastery is long famous for its association with Chinese martial arts and particularly with Shaolin Kung Fu, and it is the best known Mahayana Buddhist monastery to the Western world.

Founded in 1975, REED has for the last 31 years worked to locate, transcribe, and edit all surviving documentary evidence of drama, minstrelsy, and public ceremonial in England before 1642.

Founded by Tim Berners-Lee at MIT and currently headed by him, the consortium is made up of member organizations which maintain full-time staff for the purpose of working together in the development of standards for the World Wide Web.

Founded in 1970 as a division of Xerox Corporation, PARC has been responsible for such well known and important developments as laser printing, Ethernet, the modern personal computer, graphical user interface ( GUI ), object-oriented programming, ubiquitous computing, amorphous silicon ( a-Si ) applications, and advancing very-large-scale-integration ( VLSI ) for semiconductors.

Founded in 1991, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development ( EBRD ) uses the tools of investment to help build market economies and democracies in 30 countries from central Europe to central Asia.