The District contains a number of large Victorian-style residences built by the lumber barons and businessmen who helped establish the city in the 1870s.

The small Skye Terrier reputedly kept vigil over his deceased master's grave in Greyfriars Kirkyard for 14 years in the 1870s and 80s, giving rise to a heart-warming story of canine devotion which plays its part in attracting visitors to the city.

Shoudy was not the first settler in the Kittitas Valley, nor was he the first businessperson, but he was responsible for platting the city of Ellensburgh in the 1870s, and he was the person who named the streets in the downtown district.

In Scotland, chips were first sold in Dundee, "... in the 1870s, that glory of British gastronomy – the chip – was first sold by Belgian immigrant Edward De Gernier in the city ’ s Greenmarket.

During the 1870s and 1890s, Puerto Rico did not have a national railroad system, but the city of Mayagüez did have a small passenger rail system for transporting its residents mainly along the Mendez Vigo Avenue.

From the 1870s, with the unification of Italy, the city experienced a century of rapid growth.

Dundee City Council claims that "... in the 1870s, that glory of British gastronomy-the chip-was first sold by Belgian immigrant Edward De Gernier in the city ’ s Greenmarket.

Columbus Tustin, a carriage maker from Northern California, founded the city in the 1870s on of land from the former Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana.

The city picked up again in the 1870s as river traffic and the citrus industry recovered.

During the 1870s, Hamilton Disston of Philadelphia took an interest in developing the region while on fishing trips with Henry Shelton Sanford, founder of the city of Sanford.

When General William T. Sherman ordered a fort constructed on the lake in the 1870s, he gave it the name Fort Coeur d ' Alene ; hence the name of the city that grew around it.

The 1870s brought a new era to Homewood, ushered in by trains and by the crowded conditions of the city.

During the 1870s, the population of McGregor exploded to over 5, 500 as the city became the busiest shipping port west of Chicago.

One of the rumors is the city being slightly higher altitude which was " lay high " above the prairie, the other rumor that it was named by representatives of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania who came to Kansas and considered settling the area in the 1870s or 1880s.

In the 1870s and 1880s, the city began to grow, especially after the Louisville and Nashville Railroad built a station and line into the town around 1865.

The city was incorporated in the late 1870s and is situated along the dividing line between the former great deciduous forest of the Northwest Territories to the East, and the great plains to the West, in a region of gentle hills, where the recent geological history is dominated by the recession of the glaciers from the last great Ice Age, with numerous lakes and small rivers about.

The city was founded by Dixon Durant, a Choctaw who lived in the area, after the MK & T railroad came through the Indian Territory in the early 1870s.

In the 1870s, the city became a major hub of the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad.

Cuero's population grew considerably in the 1870s and 1880s, as residents from the coastal town of Indianola, Texas settled here after major hurricanes in this period destroyed sizeable portions of that city.

Cehen says in the early 1870s, a young civil engineer named William Nelson Page came to West Virginia to help survey and build Collis P. Huntington's C & O railroad through the valleys of the New River and the Kanawha River to link Virginia with the Ohio River, a line which was completed in 1873 at the new city of Huntington.

The city began as a sawmill settlement called Granville, in the early 1870s.

The city of St. Louis seceded from St. Louis County in the 1870s and is not part of any county in the state of Missouri.

Although efforts to establish standards had been made since the 1870s, they had come to little: no city wanted to abandon its system, few saw any reason to adopt standards, and equipment manufacturers did not want competition.

The city walls though were for the most part removed in the 1870s and 80s a task accomplished through the use of convict labour.

In the early 1870s, Charles Flower gave several acres of riverside land to the local council on the understanding that a permanent theatre be built in honour of Shakespeare's memory, and by 1879 the first Shakespeare Memorial Theatre had been completed.

In the 1870s his health began to break down, and in 1874 he gave up practice.

The regiment was not fundamentally affected by the Cardwell Reforms of the 1870s, which gave it a depot at Glencorse from 1873, or by the Childers reforms of 1881 – as it already possessed two battalions, there was no need for it to amalgamate with another regiment.

This gave impetus to a desire to steer the sleds, and soon runners and a clumsy mechanism evolved to allow just that along the longer curving streets of the 1870s.

In the 1870s, Anheuser-Busch became the first American brewery to implement pasteurization, which greatly improved the shelf-life and transportability of its beers.

By the 1870s, the Transcontinental Railroad reached its terminus in Oakland.

For example, boric acid was widely used as a food preservative from the 1870s to the 1920s, but was banned after World War I due to its toxicity, as demonstrated in animal and human studies.

Thomas Hale Streets described its state in the 1870s, when it had:

The denomination in the 1870s turned to missionary work and revivals, tripling its membership to 16, 000 by 1880 and establishing a presence beyond North America during the late 19th century.

Further advancements in telegraph technology occurred in the early 1870s, when Thomas Edison devised a full duplex two-way telegraph and then doubled its capacity with the invention of quadruplex telegraphy in 1874.

In addition, Gloucestershire had declined following its heady success in the 1870s.

The form gradually evolved from the concert saloon and variety hall into its mature form throughout the 1870s and 1880s.

Lead and silver were discovered in the southern part of the Groom Range in 1864, and the English Groome Lead Mines Limited company financed the Conception Mines in the 1870s, giving the district its name ( nearby mines included Maria, Willow and White Lake ).

The town and its environs quickly grew with the railroads, becoming a major rail terminal in the late 1860s and 1870s.

While the North Island was convulsed by the Land Wars of the 1860s and 1870s, the South Island, with its low Māori population, was generally peaceful.

The depressions of 1873 – 77 and 1890 – 91 played a crucial role in fostering the rise of industry: timidly in the 1870s and more decisively in the 1890s, industry grew with each crisis in response to the need of a damaged economy to improve its trade balance through import-substitution.

The YMCA's most influential period since its conception could be between the 1870s and 1930s.

In the early 1870s the Wisconsin Central Railway built its line up through Stetsonville, Medford, Whittlesey, Chelsea, and Westboro, with a spur to Rib Lake, and began to haul out the trees that didn't float well.

In the 1870s the county's non-agricultural sector increased when the Texas and Pacific Railway located its headquarters and shops in Marshall.

These lines, built in the 1860s and 1870s by the Edgware, Highgate and London Railway ( EH & LR ) and its successors, ran from Finsbury Park to Edgware via Highgate, with branches to Alexandra Palace and High Barnet.

Throughout its history, Tampa had been affected by yellow fever epidemics borne by mosquitoes from the surrounding swampland, but the sickness was particularly widespread during the late 1860s and 1870s.

In the 1870s, at the bottom of the hill on land between the railway line and Worple Road, the All-England Croquet Club had begun to hold its annual championships.

The county, devastated by guerilla raids during the U. S. Civil War, grew rapidly from the 1870s to the early 1900s as its dense forests were limbered off and numerous railroads were constructed.

However, in the 1870s Cunard fell behind its rivals, the White Star Line and the Inman Line.

The other one takes place since the 11th century over the coastal fringe of Gipuzkoa extending from Hondarribia to San Sebastian, where Gascon was spoken up to the early 18th century and often used in formal documents until the 16th, with evidence of its occurrence in Pasaia still in the 1870s.

Selma owes its beginnings to farming and to the Southern Pacific Railroad, which began in the 1870s as a branch line of the Central Pacific Railroad.

When most of its population and business moved on with the railroad, the town settled into a lull until the early 1870s, when rich clay deposits of the Ione Formation were discovered nearby.