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 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 1924, Our Lady of the Lake Catholic School serves students in pre-school through eighth grade, and is situated near Verona Park, operating under the auspices of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark.

Founded by Count Frederick of Wied in 1653, Neuwied was located near the village of Langendorf, destroyed during the Thirty Years ' War ( 1618 – 1648 ).

Founded in 1962 in Japan by Tsutomu Kato and Tadashi Osanai, Korg was originally known as and later because its fledgling offices were located near the Keio train line in Tokyo and Keio can be formed by combining the first letters of Kato and Osanai.

Founded in 1912, Tennessee State University has grown dramatically from a small college to two campuses: the 500-acre main campus and the downtown Avon Williams campus, which is located in the heart of Nashville near the State Capitol.

Founded in 1890, it existed in Oklahoma Territory near Indian Territory for 17 years before the two became the state of Oklahoma.

Founded by Jan Tarnowski, the castellan of Kraków, who built a castle near the town.

Founded in 1900, two years before the parish church and present school opened at their current location, Holy Family School was created out of Toronto's original west end parish and school of St. Helen's and was first located in Parkdale's Masonic Hall on the south side of Queen Street near Dowling Ave.

Founded by Li Ah Yu and his father near the turn of the 20th century, this association claims it is teaching a Soft / Hard Dragon style originating from Fukkien province.

Founded in 1865, and located near the Parliament Buildings, it is the meeting place both of Canada's political elite, and the city of Ottawa ’ s social and business elite.

Founded in 2001 by entrepreneur Viliumas Malinauskas, the park is located near Druskininkai, about southwest of Vilnius, Lithuania.

Founded by the Spanish Ruy Diaz de Melgarejo, 350 km east from the Saltos del Guaira, on May 14, 1570, with the name Villa Rica del Espíritu Santo ( Villa Rica of the Holy Ghost ), finally settled in 1682 in the hills near the Ybytyruzu, part of the Caaguazú Cordillera, 180 m above ocean level.

Founded in 1854 as Moores Hill College, it is located near the interchange of the Lloyd Expressway and U. S. Route 41.

Founded in 1970, the company took its name from an old mining town in northern Nova Scotia, near where founding members JoAnne Akalaitis, Lee Breuer, Philip Glass, Ruth Maleczech, and David Warrilow, developed The Red Horse Animation, the group's first original performance piece.

Founded in 1904, it is headquartered in suburban Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA near Imperial.

Founded in 1888 as Miss Pierce ’ s School, today, the diverse student body of over 560 students comes from the Greater Boston to a 26-acre campus in Brookline, Massachusetts near Jamaica Pond.

Founded during the time that Shri Y. M. L Sharma was Chief Conservator of Forests of Karnataka after he wrote to the Central Government to grant land for a ' National Park in Bannerghatta near Bangalore '.

Founded in 1892 and situated in the street near to the old post office, it was used as a chapel until about 2008, when it was sold to be converted to a private dwelling whilst retaining many of its original features.

Founded in 1262 by the Bohemian king, Přemysl Otakar II, it is situated near its original location, called Vraclav.

Founded in 1946, the Fighters called Tokyo home for 58 years, as co-tenants of the Tokyo Dome with the Central League's Yomiuri Giants near the end of their tenure in the capital city.

Founded in 1955 as Sacred Heart Military Academy in Watertown, WI, LeMans Academy was a private boarding middle school ( grades 5-9 ) for boys located 90 minutes east of Chicago, Illinois near La Porte, Indiana on 700 acres ( 2. 8 km² ) of land.

Founded in 1949, is located near the Imperial Palace ( Kokyo ) in the heart of Tokyo.

Founded in 1947 in Osaka, it moved to near the Kashima, Ibaraki plant in 1975.

Founded in 1951 at the end of the civil war.

Founded in Egypt in 1928 as a Pan-Islamic, religious, political, and social movement by the Islamic scholar and schoolteacher Hassan al-Banna, by the end of World War II the MB had an estimated two million members.

Founded in 1872, Rangers were one of the ten founder members of the Scottish Football League, remaining in the top division until the end of the 2011 – 12 season, during which the company became insolvent and entered administration.

Founded as the town at the end of the railroad, Faith was originally the hub of a homestead boom in the period 1910-1920 ; but the drought conditions of the 1920s that led to the Dust Bowl of the 1930s quickly replaced abnormally wet conditions of the early 20th Century, and the harsh winters of the Northern Plains quickly drove many sodbusters to more hospitable regions.

Founded toward the end of the Middle Formative period at around 500 BC, by the Terminal Formative ( ca. 100 BC-AD 200 ) Monte Albán had become the capital of a large-scale expansionist polity that dominated much of the Oaxacan highlands and interacted with other Mesoamerican regional states such as Teotihuacan to the north ( Paddock 1983 ; Marcus 1983 ).

Founded as late as 1853 during the German colonization of southern Chile, Puerto Montt soon outgrew older neighboring cities due to its strategic position at the southern end of the Chilean Central Valley being a gateway city into Chiloé Archipelago, Llanquihue and Nahuel Huapi lakes and Western Patagonia.

Founded in 1996, the team plays in the USL Professional Division, the third tier of the American Soccer Pyramid, having self-relegated from the USSF D2 Pro League at the end of the 2010 season.

Founded at the start of World War II, the focus of Hanscom had shifted from combat missions to radar technology development by the end of the war.

Founded in 1947 as the St Aidan's Society, but able to trace its roots back to the end of the 19th century, the college is named for St Aidan of Lindisfarne.

Founded around the end of the 7th century BC by colonists from the Greek city of Sybaris, and originally known as Poseidonia.

Founded in Hope, Arkansas in 1946 as ' Klipsch and Associates ' by Paul W. Klipsch, the company produces loudspeaker drivers and enclosures, as well as complete loudspeakers for high end, high fidelity sound systems, public address applications, and personal computers.

Founded in 1982 at the end of the United States Bicentennial celebration, the group is composed of musicians, Color Guard and Support, sixteen years and older.

Founded in 1999, Gameloft has expanded to employ a staff of 5, 000 at the end of 2011.

FC Lahti was founded in 1996 when two time-honoured archrival clubs from Lahti-FC Kuusysi and Reipas Lahti ( Founded in Viipuri and moved to Lahti after Viipuri was ceded to USSR in 1947 )-decided to end their time in Finnish top-football and create a new club to make people of Lahti proud.

Founded in 1989 by ( now ) Arlington Hospitality, the franchise rights were sold to Cendant Corporation at the end of the 1990s.

Founded in 1924 by the Lautaro Nitrate Company Ltd., Chacabuco soon fell into ruin as the nitrate mining boom in Chile came to an abrupt halt at the end of the 1930 ’ s.

Founded in 1933 as an information bureau that informed Jewish communities and governments worldwide about the persecution of the Jews under the Nazis, it was transformed into a research institute and public access library after the end of World War II.

Founded sometime before or at the end of World War II, the group was banned by the government starting after a 1963 coup by the secularist, pan-Arabist Ba ' ath Party.

Founded by the Normans, it became subject to Alfonso V, king of Aragon, at the end of the 15th century, and later to the Carafa family.

Founded in the 18th century, it operated until the end of the 20th, at one time in the 19th century being the largest steel producer in the UK.