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was and platted
The resultant town, platted in 1847 and named for the patron of Father Galtier's mission, St. Paul, was to become an important center of the fur trade and was to take on a new interest for those Selkirkers who remained at Red River.
In 1835, the Albion Company, a land development company formed by Jesse Crowell, platted a village and Peabody's wife was asked to name the settlement.
The village of Eureka was platted in 1858 along the route of the Pacific Railroad.
The first school and church opened in 1866, and the town was platted in 1867.
Soon after the village was platted in the early 1810s, a Methodist church was founded in the community.
In 1854, Ernest F. Pletschke platted Houghton, which was incorporated as a village by Shelden, C C Douglass and Capt.
The first Courthouse was built in the newly platted town of Bowling Green in 1828, soon after Clay County was formed by the Indiana legislature.
A platted town was established there in 1822, a year after the United States acquired the colony of Florida from Spain ; it was named after Andrew Jackson, the first military governor of the Florida Territory and seventh President of the United States.
) The settlement of Philippi — formerly " Anglin's Ford " and " Booth's Ferry " — was platted, named, and made the county seat in the same year ; it was chartered in 1844.
* 1911 – Van Nuys was platted and sold by the Los Angeles Suburban Home Company.
This time the new town of Graham, platted in 1873, was chosen as the county seat.
The town of Miami was platted out along the railroad in the southeastern part of the county in the summer of 1887.
Eventually, the town of Mineral Wells was platted.
It was formed in 1823 from Native American lands, and platted on March 16, 1825 ; it is thought to have been named after the Obion River.
Oregon City was also the site of the only federal court west of the Rockies in 1849, when San Francisco, California was platted.
When the area became more populated, the southern portion of Wayne County was broken off to form Monroe County with the settlement of Frenchtown was platted with the name " Monroe ".
The village of Cassopolis was platted in 1831 and intended as the county seat, although no settlers yet lived there, because it was the geographical center of the county.

was and surveyed
The site of the colony's capital was surveyed and laid out by Colonel William Light, the first Surveyor-General of South Australia, through the design made by the architect George Strickland Kingston.
The rural area surrounding Adelaide was surveyed by Light in preparation to sell a total of over of land.
The area was so remote that the border between North and South Carolina had not officially been surveyed.
A Mauryan bridge near Girnar was surveyed by James Princep.
The rest of the land was surveyed and parceled out to various American claimants ( See Kellersberger's Map ).
Just as the older dictionaries it includes uniquely Canadian words and words borrowed from other languages, and surveyed spellings, such as whether colour or color was the more popular choice in common use.
In 2006, Haiti was ranked as the most corrupt nation out of the 163 that were surveyed for the Index.
One wall of the great tower, various parts of the outer bailey and the battlements were destroyed, but not before the building was surveyed by the antiquarian William Dugdale, who published his results in 1656.
The land that was to become Lansing was surveyed as " Township 4 North Range 2 West " in February 1827 in what was then dense forest.
It was the last of the county's townships to be surveyed, and the land not offered for sale until October 1830.
This was due to a miscalculation in the 1840s when the border was originally surveyed.
Adler went on to note that from those she interviewed and surveyed in the U. S., she could identify a number of common factors that led to people getting involved in Paganism: the beauty, vision and imagination that was found within their beliefs and rituals, a sense of intellectual satisfaction and personal growth that they imparted, their support for environmentalism and / or feminism, and a sense of freedom.
According to BBC, 17 % of computer science students could not find work in their field 7 months after graduation in 2009 which was the highest rate of the university majors surveyed while 0 % of medical students were unemployed in the same survey.
45 percent of those surveyed thought that black-white differences in IQ were the product of both genetic and environmental variation, while 15 percent believed that the differences were entirely due to environmental factors ; the rest either declined to answer the question, or thought that there was insufficient evidence to give an answer.
As the chief engineer of the Central Pacific Railroad, Judah surveyed the route over the Sierra Nevada along which the railroad was to be built during the 1860s.
This land was surveyed by the government of the Province of Quebec, particularly in eastern Ontario along the St. Lawrence River, as the Western Townships, while the Eastern Townships were in Lower Canada.
Gruinard was surveyed, deemed suitable and requisitioned from its owners by the British Government.
As well as cases of border disputes, de facto boundaries may also arise in relatively unpopulated areas in which the border was never formally established or in which the agreed border was never surveyed and its exact position is unclear.
The Maryland – Pennsylvania boundary was surveyed and marked between April 1765 and October 1767 by astronomer Charles Mason and surveyor Jeremiah Dixon.
Still, General Montcalm and two of his military engineers surveyed the works in 1758 and found something to criticize in almost every aspect of the fort's construction ; the buildings were too tall and thus easier for attackers ' cannon fire to hit, the powder magazine leaked, and the masonry was of poor quality.
In a 1994 study, it was found that 71 % of the families surveyed would object to their daughter marrying an aboriginal man.

was and by
Her face was very thin, and burned by the sun until much of the skin was dead and peeling, the new skin under it red and angry.
Gavin's stallion was in the barn and he tightened the cinches over the saddle blanket, working by touch in the darkness, comforting the animal with easy words.
It was pierced by a wagon gate built of two wings.
In the brief moment I had to talk to them before I took my post on the ring of defenses, I indicated I was sickened by the methods men employed to live and trade on the river.
His face was split by a vermilion streak, his eyes were pools of white ; ;
It was pitiful to see the thin ranks of warriors, old and young, wheeling and twisting their ponies frantically from side to side only to be tumbled bleeding from their saddles by the relentless slam, slam of the cruelly efficient Hawkinses.
He grabbed her by the shoulders and went down on one knee, taking her weight so that some of the wind was driven out of him.
There was an artificial lake just out of sight in the first stand of trees, fed by a half dozen springs that popped out of the ground above the hillside orchard.
only the counter at one end was lighted by a long fluorescent tube suspended directly above it.
He had looked over my forms and was impressed by what he had seen there ; ;
The office was of logs, four rooms, each heated by an iron stove.
The building was dwarfed by the scene outside.
It was partially cemented by ages and pressure, yet it crumpled before the onslaught of the powerful streams, the force of a thousand fire hoses, and with the gold it held washed down through the long sluices.
Even Hague was repelled by the machinelike deadliness that was Kodyke.
When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.
She was sure she would reach the pool by climbing, and she clung to that belief despite the increasing number of obstacles.
It was secured by an oversized padlock.
The rustling problem was by no means solved.
Jess's coarse features twisted in a surprised grin which was smashed out of shape by Curt's fist.
Russ ran through the bills and named an amount it was highly unlikely any cowpuncher would come by honestly.
The truth was, the puncher was both bewildered and dismayed by his own mixed luck.
When it was followed by a second, whining even closer, Cobb swerved sharply aside into a depression.

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