Westbound Route 28 ( Union Avenue ) approaching the left turn onto Gaston Avenue in Somerville, New Jersey | Somerville. Route 28 begins at an interchange with U. S. Route 22 in Bridgewater Township, Somerset County, heading to the southeast on Easton Turnpike, a two-lane undivided road with a speed limit of.

Upon leaving the downtown area, the route turns north onto Gaston Avenue and heads into residential areas again, with County Route 612 continuing east on Main Street.

Other U. S. cities and towns named in Dallas ' honor include Dallas, Georgia ( the county seat of Paulding County, Georgia ), Dallas, North Carolina ( the former county seat of Gaston County, North Carolina ), Dallas, Oregon ( the county seat of Polk County, Oregon ) and Dallastown, Pennsylvania.

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In 1846 the southern half of what was left of Lincoln County became Gaston County.

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Gaston County is a county located just west of Charlotte ( Mecklenburg County ) in the southern Piedmont in the U. S. state of North Carolina.

The county seat of Gaston County is Gastonia.

Of North Carolina's one hundred counties, Gaston County ranks 74th in size, consisting of approximately, and is seventh in population.

Most of Gaston County is in the drainage basin of the Catawba River, except for small areas along the western edge of the county which are in the basin of the Broad River.

The highest point in Gaston County is King's Pinnacle, a rocky monadnock which sharply rises over above the city of Gastonia.

Gaston County has fourteen incorporated towns: Belmont, Bessemer City, Cherryville, Cramerton, Dallas, Dellview ( smallest incorporated town in the U. S. with a population of 13 ), Gastonia, High Shoals, Lowell, McAdenville, Mount Holly, Ranlo, Spencer Mountain, and Stanley.

The earliest European settlers of Gaston County were principally Scots Irish, Pennsylvania Dutch, and English.

North Carolina's colonial policy restricted the size of land grants, and in Gaston County they tended to be about each.

Between 1845 and 1848, Gaston County experienced an industrial boom.

Gaston County still leads all other counties in the country both in the number of spindles in operation and in the number of bales of cotton consumed.

There are 92, 094 males and 98, 271 females in Gaston County.

Gaston County is governed by a seven-member Board of Commissioners.

Two members are elected from Gaston Township and one each from the other five townships of Gaston County.

Public education in Gaston County is administered by the Gaston County Schools public school system.

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Public education in Belmont is administered by the Gaston County Schools public school system.

Public education in Cramerton is administered by the Gaston County Schools public school system.

Other major employers include the City of Gastonia and Gaston County governments, the Gaston County Schools system, Caromont Healthcare ( Gaston Memorial Hospital ), and retailers Walmart and Advance Auto Parts, with two and six stores ( plus a distribution center ) respectively.

Public education in High Shoals is administered by the Gaston County Schools public school system.

Public education in Lowell is administered by the Gaston County Schools public school system.

Public education in McAdenville is administered by the Gaston County Schools public school system.

All four schools are part of the Gaston County Schools.

The university has also educated 26 foreign Heads of State, including President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili, President of East Timor Jose Ramos Horta, President of Estonia Toomas Hendrik Ilves and other historical figures such as Wellington Koo, Gaston Eyskens, and T. V. Soong.

By contrast with empiricism and idealism, which emphasize the epistemologically privileged status of sense data ( empirical ) and the primacy of Reason ( theoretical ) respectively, modern rationalism adds a third ' system of thinking ', ( as Gaston Bachelard has termed these areas ) and holds that all three are of equal importance: The empirical, the theoretical and the abstract.

With a new life and a new family, Gaston has a fresh start.

The term " courtly love " was first popularized by Gaston Paris in 1883, and has since come under a wide variety of definitions and uses, even being dismissed as nineteenth-century romantic fiction.

It has been excavated by Vyse, Barsanti, Gaston Maspero, Firth, Selim Hassan, A. Husein, and Alexandre Piankoff.

Gaston County has three charter schools: Highland Charter ( K – 5 ) and Piedmont Community Charter School ( K – 12 ) in Gastonia, and Mountain Island Charter School ( K – 8 ) in Mount Holly.

Gaston County has twelve natural heritage sites listed as being of state or regional significance.

The Gaston-Lincoln Regional Public Library System, which serves Gaston County and Lincoln County, has a branch in Mount Holly.

The town was named after one of Gaston County's mountain summits, Spencer Mountain that has an elevation of around 1, 250 feet.

Though too far from Portland to benefit much at first, recently Gaston has started to see new housing and an uptick in school registrations.

Belgium has numerous well-known cartoonists, such as Hergé ( The Adventures of Tintin ), Peyo ( The Smurfs ), Franquin ( Spirou et Fantasio, Marsupilami, Gaston ), Willy Vandersteen ( Spike and Suzy ), Morris ( Lucky Luke ), Edgar P. Jacobs ( Blake and Mortimer ), Jef Nys ( Jommeke ) and Marc Sleen ( Nero ).

Since the 1980s Gaston has appeared on a wide variety of merchandise.

Gaston has also appeared in advertising campaigns for batteries, a soft drink ( Orange Piedboeuf ), and in a campaign to promote bus use.

The other great early work, Le Mystère de la Chambre Jaune ( The Mystery of the Yellow Room ), was written in 1907 by French journalist and author Gaston Leroux, and it, too, has had many imitators.

* In Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel The Phantom of the Opera, Erik ( the Phantom ) has the chant displayed on the wall of his funereal bedroom.

It has 30 heritage houses declared by the national historical institute, most notable of which is Balay Negrense ; it is also the hometown of National Artist of the Philippines for Architecture Leandro Locsin and international mezzo-soprano Conchita Gaston.

Amongst those he has influenced are Miguel Serrano, Savitri Devi, GRECE, the Movimento sociale italiano ( MSI ), Falange Espanola, Gaston Armand Amaudruz's Nouvel Ordre Européen, Guillaume Faye, Pino Rauti's Ordine Nuovo, Alain de Benoist, Michael Moynihan, Giorgio Freda, the Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari ( Armed Revolutionary Nuclei ) and Forza Nuova.

Poe scholar Richard P. Benton has stated his belief that " Poe's protagonist is an Englished version of the French Montrésor " and has argued forcefully that Poe's model for Montresor " was Claude de Bourdeille, Count of Montrésor, the 17th-century political conspirator in the entourage of King Louis XIII's weak-willed brother, Gaston d ' Orléans ".

Extensive work has been done by Gaston ( 1973 ), Glen ( 1985 ) and Glen and Perrins ( 1988 ), Lack and Lack ( 1958 ) at Wytham Wood, England.

Since the Second World War, every Prime Minister of Luxembourg has been a member of the CSV, with only one exception ( Gaston Thorn, 1974 – 1979 ).

Gaston Caperton, former Governor of West Virginia, has been the president of College Board since 1999 ; he will be replaced in October by David Coleman.

Consumer rights organization Americans for Educational Testing Reform ( AETR ) has criticized College Board for violating its non-profit status through excessive profits and exorbitant executive compensation ; twelve of its executives make more than $ 300, 000 per year, with CEO Gaston Caperton earning over $ 800, 000.