In 1867, the first diamond discovered in South Africa, the Eureka Diamond, was found near Hopetown on the Orange River.

After Mr. Thomas died, Anne went to live with the Hammond family for some years and was treated as little more than a servant until Mr. Hammond died, whereupon Mrs. Hammond divided her children amongst relatives and Anne was sent to the orphanage at Hopetown.

Motocross was introduced to the United States in 1966 when Swedish champion, Torsten Hallman rode an exhibition event against the top American TT riders at the Corriganville Movie Ranch also known as Hopetown in Simi Valley, California.

When he was sent in 1868 by diamond merchant Harry Emmanuel of London's Hatton Garden to Hopetown, South Africa to determine if claims of diamonds being found there were true, he investigated and reported back, that " The whole story of the Cape diamond discoveries is false, and is simply one of the many schemes for trying to promote the employment and expenditure of capital in searching for this pereachous ( sic ) substance in the colony ".

The first diamond discovered in South Africa, the Eureka Diamond, was found at Hopetown.

Hopetown was founded in 1850 when Sir Harry Smith extended the northern frontier of the Cape Colony to the Orange River.

Hopetown was named after William Hope, Auditor-General and Secretary of the Cape Colony Government at the time, and is often mistaken for a town in the Freestate, South Africa, called Hoopstad.

It was founded in 1894 as Hopetown but the following confusion with another town of the same name in the Great Karoo, Northern Cape, the name was changed.

* A diamond was found near Hopetown

Locomotion No. 1 was on display in Alfred Kitching's workshop near Hopetown Carriage Works from 1857 to the 1880s.

Hopetown originally served as the administrative centre of the Abacos, until it switched over to Marsh Harbour in the 1960s

Hopetown is the largest settlement which contains several grocery stores including Vernons Grocery run by a descendent of Wyannie Malone, rental properties and restaurants.

Hopetown lies at the edge of the Great Karoo in South Africa's Northern Cape province.

Hoopstad is a different town and should not be confused with Hopetown in the Northern Cape, South Africa.

The R347 is a Regional Route in South Africa that connects Strydenburg with the R369 to Hopetown and Priekska.

The R368 is a Regional Route in South Africa that connects Colesberg with Hopetown.

The Cape Government Railways were founded in 1872, and the Cape government decided to run the main western line, between the Kimberley diamond fields and Cape Town on the coast, directly through Hopetown.

On May 8, 2004 in Hopetown, Abaco, Bahamas, Smith got married for the second time to architect Nancy Mack.

The township comprises the communities of Arklan, Boyds, Brightside, Bullock, California, Cedardale, Clyde Forks, Clydesville, Dalhousie Lake, Elphin, Flower Station, Folger, French Line, Halls Mills, Halpenny, Hood, Hopetown, Joes Lake, Lammermoor, Lanark, Lavant, Lavant Station, Lloyd, Marble Bluff, McDonalds Corners, Middleville, Pine Grove, Poland, Quinn Settlement, Rosetta, Tatlock, Watsons Corners and White, as well as the ghost town of Herrons Mills.

In December 1901, Lawley toured the south-western parts of the province along with Lord Hopetown.

In 1871 Dom Pedro, the Emperor of Brazil visited Normanton with his Empress and gave his name ( albeit in a slightly altered form ) to the Don Pedro colliery at Hopetown.

The Hopetown Harbour Lodge is the largest hotel on the island at the south part of Hopetown.

Cars and golf carts can drive up to, but not through Hopetown.

Hopetown and Hoopstad are two different towns and often get confused.

It was nice then, so peaceful and quiet.

There was only one place where Jake Carwood's description had gone badly awry: the peace and quiet.

The place was quiet.

But the scene was not the quiet, calm scene I'd expected.

To Tilghman the incident was just one of a long list of hair-raising, smash-'em-down adventures on the side of the law which started in 1872 when he was only eighteen years old, and did not end till fifty years later when he was shot dead after warning a drunk to be quiet.

Her brother Karl was a very gentle soul, her mother was a quiet woman who said little but who had hard, probing eyes.

As he pulled the fringed sides up and made himself into a cocoon, Mr. Podger saw that thin, attractive, freckled little face again, and hoped that the boy, too, was lying in a cool, fringed-wrapped quiet.

But it seems that pressures against him are coming from somewhere -- in the first place from China, but perhaps also from that `` China Lobby '' which, I was assured in Moscow nearly two years ago, exists on the quiet inside the party.

And one cannot but wonder whether Marshal Malinovsky, who was blowing hot and cold, exalting peace but also almost openly considering the possibility of preventive war against the West, wasn't trying to keep the Chinese quiet.

On the other side of the church was a quiet, well-kept house with shutters and recently painted.

Instead Sergeant Early was quiet, sharp and confident.

There was a small, neon-lighted restaurant and cocktail lounge on the southeast corner of the intersection as he turned into the quiet, palm-lined street where most of the houses on both sides were older two-story mansions, now cut up into furnished rooms and housekeeping apartments.

He sucked in his breath and kept quiet while Killpath laid down the sheet again, wound the gold-wire stems of his glasses around his ears and then, eying the report as it lay before him on the desk, intoned, `` Acting Lieutenant Gunnar Matson one failed to see that the station keeper was properly relieved two absented himself throughout the entire watch without checking on the station's activities or the whereabouts of his section sergeants three permitted members of the Homicide Detail of the Inspector's Bureau to arrogate for their own convenience a patrolman who was thereby prevented from carrying on his proper assignment four failed to notify the station commander Acting Captain O. T. Killpath of a homicide occurring in the district five frequented extralegal establishments known as after-hours spots for purposes of an unofficial and purportedly social nature and six '' -- he leaned back and peeled off his glasses `` -- failed to co-operate with the Acting Captain by returning promptly when so ordered.

It was nine o'clock in the morning: the hour which, like a spade turning clods of earth, exposed to the day a myriad of busy creatures that had lain dormant in the quiet night.

Winsett is a quiet street with no taverns and was completely deserted at that hour.

The campaign leading to the election was not so quiet, however.

All was quiet in the office of the Yankees and the local National Leaguers yesterday.

It was done with great taste, was big and spacious, sumptuous as the dreams of any peasant in its courtly costumes, but sumptuous in a muted, pastel-like style, with rich, quiet harmonies of color between the costumes themselves and between the costumes and the scenery.

while the Yin, or female principle, flourished in darkness, cold, and quiet inactivity, and was associated with the Moon.

Spencer was quiet for a moment longer, then he said, `` There is nothing I want to say, Captain ''.