After the Old Colony railroad came to mainland Woods Hole in 1872, summer residences began to develop on the island, such as the community of Harthaven established by William H. Hart.

In 1872, Daae-Finsen reported an epidemic of " acute muscular rheumatism " occurring in a community called Bamble, giving rise to the name " Bamble disease " in Norway.

The community of Hopkinsville was established in 1872 by Henry Hopkins, freedman former slave of Judge Henry Clay Pleasants, the judge credited for ending the Sutton-Taylor Feud.

The community was incorporated as a village in the northern part of the Town of Yonkers in 1854, and as a city in 1872.

By 1872 a Spanish American agricultural community had developed.

By 1872, there were eight thousand acres ( 32 km² ) of land under cultivation in the valley and a thriving community had been built along the Salt River.

When the 1872 Lone Pine earthquake rendered the pier in nearby Swansea inaccessible by uplifting the shoreline, a new pier was constructed to the south at a community named Hawley.

Founded in 1872, the community is served by Santa Fe Trail school district USD 434, which also serves Scranton and Overbrook.

Beaten to the settlement of Wilson, Kansas by Bohemian colonists, German settlers from Philadelphia and Lancaster, Pennsylvania established a community on the Kansas Pacific Railway at the future site of Gorham in April 1872.

The Murray Independent School system has been a part of the Murray community since 1872 when the first school was built in the middle of town.

In 1825, the community became the county seat, but it didn't incorporate until March 28, 1872.

The Pray Cemetery and the historic Esek Pray House are located to the east of Frains Lake ; inside the community is the historic Frains Lake School, which was constructed in 1872.

However, the Brashear community dates back prior to 1872 by several years.

In May 1872, they established a community near what is now North Loup.

With the arrival of the Newark and Bloomfield Railroad in 1856, and the construction of the Glen Ridge Train Station, and also the New York and Greenwood Lake Railway in 1872, Glen Ridge began its transition to a suburban residential community.

Pine Hill became an important tourist community when the Ulster and Delaware Railroad railroad reached it in 1872.

In 1872 the community suggested that the property be used to educate the less fortunate.

When the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway built a line through the Choctaw Nation in 1872, the community of Cale was established on the east side of the tracks.

He established the first store selling general merchandise in 1873, around the time of the 1872 creation of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad ( Katy Railroad ) siding at Durant, which was the initial impetus for establishing the community.

The post office for the community had been established with the name of Prine on April 13, 1871, but changed to Prineville on December 23, 1872.

In 1881, the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway extended its tracks through central Texas, buying a few miles southwest of a small farming community known as Palo Alto, which had existed since about 1872.

John C. Dewey directed many community activities, including the construction of a school house in 1869 and a Sunday school in 1872.

In 1872, the community of Philadelphia set itself off from the town by incorporating as a village.

A small part of Norfolk was lost when the community of " Raquetteville " incorporated as the Village of Potsdam Junction in 1872.

It includes a depiction of the nativity made by Clayton and Bell in 1872, and was presented to the church by the Bath Literary Club.

In 1857, the town of Clayton was laid out and founded by Joel Henry Clayton ( 1812 – 1872 ) and his two younger brothers.

* Charles Clayton Brooke ( 1872 – 1873 )

Clayton incorporated as a village, by vote of its citizens, in 1872.

James Clayton MBE ( 1871 / 1872 – 12 October 1946 ) was a British mechanical engineer who worked extensively on railway locomotives.

In the election of 1872, Democratic candidate Horace Greeley did in fact die before the meeting of the Electoral College, resulting in Democratic disarray ; the electors who were to have voted for Greeley split their votes across several candidates, including three votes cast for the deceased Greeley.

In 1872, Pennsylvania voted an annuity of $ 1, 500 to the " crazy man " whose determination founded the oil industry.

He handed over office on 31 December 1872 after being voted out of office.

After lobbying by Nashville bishop Holland McTyeire, church leaders voted to create " Central University " in Nashville in 1872.

The Ballot Act of 1872 enacted a secret ballot, making vote bribery impossible as the briber has no way of knowing how the person voted.

He was a Republican who voted for Lincoln and Grant for President, and after 1872 became a Democrat.

Anthony argued that she was constitutionally guaranteed the right to vote and had not broken the law when she voted in the 1872 election ; Hunt found that Anthony had indeed broken the law, ordered the jury to deliver a guilty verdict, and fined Anthony $ 100 ( which she refused to pay ).

In 1872, 13 % of the free Brazilian population voted.

This was where the hustings were situated and electors voted by spoken declaration in public, before the secret ballot was introduced in 1872.

In 1872, the governing boards voted to establish a Graduate Department and appointed an Academic Council to administer and recommend candidates for the degrees of Master of Arts, Master of Science, Doctor of Philosophy, and Doctor of Science.

To this end, the two organisations prepared and adopted a joint programme and charter and voted on the merger of the two organisations under the name of BRCK at a general meeting held in Bucharest in May, 1872.

To this end, the two organisations prepared and adopted a joint programme and charter and voted on the merger of the two organisations under the name of BRCK at a general meeting held in Bucharest in May 1872.

In the Presidential election of 1872, Governor Palmer received three electoral votes for Vice President by electors who had voted for the Liberal Republican Party's Vice Presidential candidate B. Gratz Brown for President after the death of Horace Greeley.

He became a Republican and voted in 1872 for General Ulysses S. Grant as a member of the Electoral College of Virginia.

During and after the Franco-Prussian War, for which he voted, he retired for a while into private life ; but in 1872 he was again elected deputy, this time as a Legitimist, and took his seat among the conservative Right of the French Third Republic.