During the 1990s, the downtown area underwent a revitalization, many of the city sidewalks were repaved with decorative brick facing, and a different mix of shops and restaurants opened up to take advantage of the area's historical appeal.

Referred to as " Washington-Wilkes ", the county seat and county are commonly treated as a single entity by locals, including the area's historical society and the Chamber of Commerce.

The name " Rochester Hills " won with voters based on the area's historical ties to Rochester, and the rolling hills that exist in the area.

The dialect of Göingebygden has historically been distinguishable from the southern Scanian dialects as well as the northern Småland dialects, perhaps because the population took pride in the area's historical autonomy and resilient resistance.

Such service would both add to the charm of the historical downtown area and make it easier for visitors and residents to get around and avoid the area's notorious traffic congestion.

Some of the plans include a new 3-story museum to house the historical society and genealogical society, a farmer's market and plaza, a new performing arts center, updates and expansions to area parks, the conversion of the historic Central Middle School on Main Street into a professional development center, infrastructure and landscape improvements, and incentives to encourage denser infill, redevelopment, and reuse of the area's historic structures.

Stange has its own historical association that publishes articles, short research topics, as well as authoritative works on the area's history.

Because of the historical motivation for the area's Germanization, cities and regions were to revert to their traditional German names.

Naughton is also home to historical plaques commemorating Salter's Meridian, a survey line which resulted in the first known evidence of the Sudbury area's massive mineral deposits, and the Hudson's Bay Company's historic Whitefish Lake Trading Post.

Around the area's natural elements, historical and anthropological background, a 2010 romantic drama 香格里拉 Shangri-La, starring China's popular actor Hu Ge, was broadcasted at CCTV1 and received positive reviews.

The area's economic development has a strong historical link to heavy industry, particularly railways, with the manufacturing of locomotives.

The early history of Monaco is primarily concerned with the protective and strategic value of the Rock of Monaco, the area's chief geological landmark, which served first as a shelter for ancient peoples and later as a fortress.

The exhibition shows various aspects ; from the geological process of creation to production, and use of the stone larvikite, the area's main export product.

The mountain is the highest point within the Fforest Fawr Geopark which was established in 2005 to promote economic development, particularly sustainable tourism, based on the area's geological heritage.

This SSSI covers centred on the Helvellyn range and Fairfield, and was designated in 1975 because of the area's geological and biological features.

One of the area's most famous visitors was Sir William Edmond Logan ( later head of the Geological Survey of Canada ), who carried out detailed geological survey work in the area, discovering near the foot of the falls the fossil trees which now stand outside Swansea Museum.

According to the Washington State Department of Natural Resources, the area's sediments are classified as Unconsolidated Deposition, translating to the geological equivalent of a grab bag.

The quality of schools in Granite Bay is often cited as an important factor in the area's high home values.

Minimum values in the southern part generally fall between and ( Gorizia over and Udine over ), whereas the alpine area's maximum annual rainfall is approximately.

Like the area's other Southern rock acts, their music typically expressed the values, hopes and excesses of 1970s-era young adults in a Southern metropolitan area like Jacksonville, in addition to Southern (" Gator Country ", " Sweet Dixie ") and Western themes (" Edge of Sundown ", " Bounty Hunter ", " Gunsmoke ").

Residents of the eastern side and many of the area's real estates have campaigned for the eastern side to be called East Bateau Bay, as it is expected that property values would be boosted.

In recent years, the area has enjoyed highly accelerated increase in property values, fueled not only by Los Angeles ' real estate boom but also by buyers attracted to the area's charming old fashioned ambiance and by the historic nature of the homes.

The park is also famous for its outstanding views of the area's natural scenery and Vermont's Green Mountains in the distance.

The area's beautiful scenery and colourful art-deco style shops and houses attract an alternative and somewhat eccentric subculture.

They area is well known for the production of various types of fruit, berries, vegetables, and flowers, so this was chosen as a symbol of the area's lush scenery and agriculture.

Much of the coastal scenery in this area was until two decades ago dominated by the spoil heaps and pithead winding gear of the collieries, but those are now gone and the area's natural beauty has been restored.

There is also a fear growing that the change to catering to tourists will harm the charm of the area's simplicity and fundamental Japanese scenery.

The formation also contains and is overlain by some siltstones and mudstones which form a broken zone of softer scenery around the periphery of the area's rugged core.

Since the decline of tin mining, agriculture and fishing, the area's economy has become increasingly dependent on tourism — some of Britain's most spectacular coastal scenery can be found here.

The railway allowed both day trippers and wealthy residents quickly to appreciate the area's scenery.

Since then over 60 murals depicting the area's rich history and beautiful natural scenery are painted on walls scattered throughout the town and buildings along the roadside.

The area's amenities, such as the natural beauty of the area, the opportunities for fishing ( both marine and freshwater ), its convenience as a jumping-off point for new outdoor recreation and ecotourism activities such as hiking, kayaking, and mountain-biking, lend themselves to these activities very well.

Fat Freddy ’ s Drop were not one of the bands funded, but the elevated live music scene, and the relative success of Live at The Matterhorn, gave them more opportunities to establish themselves as one of the area's best live acts.

It has benefited greatly from the impoundment of the Stones by J. Percy Priest Dam, a nearby United States Army Corps of Engineers project, which provides a great deal of recreation opportunities, particularly in the summer months, and which has contributed greatly to the desirability and value of the area's real estate.

The area's desirability was increased somewhat by the impoundment of Percy Priest Lake on the Stones River in the late 1960s which increased summertime recreational opportunities.

The causes of the shop's troubles are numerous: a rise in Internet bookselling that made it easier to find rare titles online, increasing store theft, rising rent from the Grolier's landowner ( Harvard University ), a growth in university-centered, as opposed to community-centered, creative writing opportunities, and the rise of chain stores in the Harvard Square area that have reduced the area's attractiveness to the Grolier's target market.

Hiking opportunities in the area range from 30-60 minute walks all the way up to one or two day tours of the area's mountains.

The study of the St. Louis area's economic prospects prepared for the Construction Industry Joint Conference confirms and reinforces both the findings of the Metropolitan St. Louis Survey of 1957 and the easily observed picture of the Missouri-Illinois countryside.

Without a great acceleration in the metropolitan area's economy, there will not be sufficient jobs for the growing numbers of youngsters, and St. Louis will slip into second-class status.

In the fall of 1993, Jerry Colangelo, majority owner of the Phoenix Suns, the area's NBA franchise, announced he was assembling an ownership group, " Arizona Baseball, Inc .," to apply for a Major League Baseball expansion team.

It has the major importance for satisfying the area's major needs for cottage industry as well as milk meat and fat.

Such a use might be, for example: " 120 years of industry have dosed the area's soil with a noxious cocktail of heavy metals and chemical contaminants.

Other than defense and aerospace, healthcare accounts for much of the Dayton area's economy.

Placed in charge of the party office in Lower Bavaria by Strasser from late 1924, he was responsible for integrating the area's membership with the NSDAP under Hitler when the party was re-founded in February 1925.

New York traded with pirates and smugglers, and the colonies of New England consistently frustrated the government's attempts to utilize the area's forests for shipbuilding.

The Musicians ' Village includes Habitat-constructed homes, with an Ellis Marsalis Center for Music, as the area's centerpiece.

The area's location at the center of routes linking three continents made it the meeting place for religious and cultural influences from Egypt, Syria, Mesopotamia, and Asia Minor.

Because the area's climate was not suitable, they had difficulties growing grapes for wine.

Environment-current issues: government water control projects have drained most of the inhabited marsh areas east of An Nasiriyah by drying up or diverting the feeder streams and rivers ; a once sizable population of Shi ' a Muslims, who have inhabited these areas for thousands of years, has been displaced ; furthermore, the destruction of the natural habitat poses serious threats to the area's wildlife populations ; inadequate supplies of potable water ; development of Tigris-Euphrates Rivers system contingent upon agreements with upstream riparian Turkey ; air and water pollution ; soil degradation ( salination ) and erosion ; and desertification.

# The sorting office then sorts each letter by address and postcode and delivers the letters destined for a particular area to that area's post office.

Rocky soil yielded poor farming, but the area's abundant timber, combined with water power to run sawmills on the Pemigewasset River and its East Branch, helped Lincoln develop into a center for logging.

The Rock of Monaco served as a shelter for the area's early inhabitants from the end of the Paleolithic period, approximately 300, 000 BC, evidence of which has been found in a cave in St. Judist's Gardens.

The British colony would be officially designated Western Australia in 1832, but was known informally for many years as the Swan River Colony after the area's major watercourse.

Thus, regionalism helped align Stanford's interests with those of the area's high-tech firms for the first fifty years of Silicon Valley's development.

** American Old West: Near Frisco, New Mexico, deputy sheriff Elfego Baca holds off a gang of 80 Texan cowboys who want to kill him for arresting cowboy Charles McCarthy ( the cowboys were terrorizing the area's Hispanos and Baca was working against them ).

Anning searched for fossils in the area's Blue Lias cliffs, particularly during the winter months when landslides exposed new fossils that had to be collected quickly before they were lost to the sea.

Hebron is a busy hub of West Bank trade, responsible for roughly a third of the area's gross domestic product, largely due to the sale of marble from quarries.

The area's early history featured a succession of Indian empires, internal squabbling, and a tussle between Hinduism and Buddhism for dominance.

Berchtesgaden and its environs ( Stanggass ) were fitted to serve as an outpost of the German Reichskanzlei office ( Imperial Chancellery ), which sealed the area's fate as a strategic objective for Allied forces in World War II.

Discussions regarding the magisterial structure for the area's political integration into the Cape dragged on until, from 1876, it was blocked by Britain.