* Molonglo Valley, first suburbs currently under construction

However, as authors Briar and Hobbs claim, " all the pyramids were robbed " by the New Kingdom, when the construction of royal tombs in a desert valley, now known as the Valley of the Kings, began.

Extensive settlement began in the Valley, again primarily by Hispanic farmers and ranchers from New Mexico in the 1850s after the construction of Fort Massachusetts by the U. S. Army for protection against the Utes, who previously barred settlers.

Tibetan king Songtsän Gampo ( reigned 627 – 49 ), a convert to Buddhism, ordered the construction of two Buddhist temples, at Bumthang in central Bhutan and at Kyichu ( near Paro ) in the Paro Valley.

Upon his return from Tibet, he oversaw the construction of new monasteries in the Paro Valley and set up his headquarters in Bumthang.

Under the Catalan dynasty, the 12th century saw the construction of important cathedrals and abbeys in Provence, in a harmonious new style, the romanesque, which united the Gallo-Roman style of the Rhone Valley with the Lombard style of the Alps.

Clark & Co., a private banking firm in Philadelphia which controlled the Shenandoah Valley Railroad then under construction up the valley from Hagerstown, Maryland.

Numerous infrastructure connecting adjacent junction as directional Torano it branches in the A25 to Pescara, Teramo to Giulianova on SS80, SS81 to Chieti and on the A14 Bologna-Taranto, exit on the freeway Rieti Valley Jump-Terni, exit west on SS80 to L ' Aquila Teramo, near Tivoli and the connection to the A1 motorway allows easy connections with Naples and Milan, the highway construction has contributed greatly to the economic development of the region.

It then became an independent college in 1958 as San Fernando Valley State College, with major campus master planning and construction.

The construction of Norris Dam, the first dam built by the Tennessee Valley Authority, brought major changes to the county in the 1930s.

The leopard will be returned to its place of birth following construction of a rehab facility in the Naltar Valley with cooperation from the United States.

The biggest employers in Franklin County are the manufacturing firms of Magnet LLC, Cardinal Brands Hazel Division, GDX Automotive, Sporlan Value Company, and Meramec Group Inc. as well as the Meramec Valley R-III School District in the public education sector and Schatz Underground Cable Inc. in the construction industry.

From various high tech companies like Intel and Hewlett Packard the county is sometimes dubbed " the Silicon Valley of Europe ", and had a pick up in construction that predated that of other counties.

In the late 1960s, the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission ( DVRPC ) proposed construction of a long, $ 20 million freeway along the Route 45 corridor in Gloucester County which would have extended from Exit 24 of Interstate 295 in Woodbury to a planned U. S. Route 322 freeway in Mullica Hill.

In the 1950s, the Victorian State Government purchased farming properties along the Goulburn and Delatite rivers for the construction of Lake Eildon to provide irrigation water for the Goulburn Valley.

Other residents over time have included: F. Wayne Valley, philanthropist, construction magnate, owner of the Oakland Raiders and founding member of the AFL ; Frank C. Havens, for whom Havens Elementary School is named ; and James Gamble, president of the Western Union Telegraph Company, who, in 1877, founded the Piedmont Land Company, thus introducing the name later adopted by the city upon its incorporation.

It expanded during construction of the Owens Valley aqueduct.

By 1974, the Antelope Valley Freeway construction ended at the southern border of Mojave in Kern County.

The Visitacion Valley rail yard and locomotive works were expected to employ over 1, 000 workers, but construction was halted soon after it began due to the Panic of 1907.

Boulder Creek served as the upper terminus of the San Lorenzo Valley Logging Flume terminating in Felton, which began construction in 1874 and when formally opened in October of 1875 was augmented by a new rail line to transport logs to the wharf in Santa Cruz.

Shasta Lake started out as five small communities named Central Valley, Toyon, Project City, Pine Grove, and Summit City, all of which came about with the beginning of construction of Shasta Dam in 1938.

The town site traces its roots to the construction of a railroad lines through the San Joaquin Valley, by 1888 a line passed through the area.

There has been a small amount of new construction and Shoshone has experienced slow growth since the year 2000, due in part to commuters who work in Sun Valley but choose to live in Shoshone because of the comparatively lower cost of living.

The town is named for John Skirving Maitland who was a surveyor for the Nodaway Valley Railroad ( the construction company for the Kansas City, St. Joseph and Council Bluffs Railroad ) that arrived in Maitland in 1880 when its superintendent John Fisk Barnard bought the land for the town from John S. and Delila Swope.

Several served in the Revolutionary War, which brought the 1779 construction of Continental Road from Eagle Valley through the present-day village of Tuxedo Park to what is now Route 17 near Warwick Brook Road.

The Pacific Railway Acts of 1862 and 1864 granted federal support for the construction of the United States ' First Transcontinental Railroad, which was completed in 1869.

Several lines in China such as Guangzhou-Zhuhai Intercity Mass Rapid Transit, the Beijing – Tianjin Intercity Railway, and the Shanghai – Nanjing High-Speed Railway, serve a similar role with many more under construction or planned.

The China Railway Seventh Group Co. Ltd will be in charge of the contract, under signed by the China Railway Engineering Corporation, with construction to be started from June 2008.

The town's growth was facilitated by its role as the administrative and commercial centre of German East Africa and industrial expansion resulting from the construction of the Central Railway Line in the early 1900s.

A 936 km railroad construction program, the Trans-Gabon Railway, began in October 1974.

The construction of the Baghdad Railway, financed by German banks, was designed to eventually connect Germany with the Turkish Empire and the Persian Gulf, but it also collided with British and Russian geopolitical interests.

The construction of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway ( now Canadian National Railway ) through this district made it of some importance at the start of the 20th century.

A high speed inter-city rail line ( Haramain High Speed Rail Project also known as the " Western Railway "), is under construction in Saudi Arabia.

* 1885 – In Craigellachie, British Columbia, construction ends on the Canadian Pacific Railway extending across Canada.

Beginning with Sir John A. Macdonald's National Policy ( 1879 ) and the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway ( 1875 – 1885 ) through Northern Ontario and the Canadian Prairies to British Columbia, Ontario manufacturing and industry flourished.

There are also plans to provide access to Santiago de Compostela by the Spanish High Speed Railway Network, a project under construction.

In February 2006, the final construction phase began on the Trans-Garagum Railway, a direct link between Ashgabat and Dashhowuz that will halve travel time between the southern and northern borders.

* During construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1883, blasting and excavation reveal high concentrations of nickel – copper ore at Murray Mine on the edge of the Sudbury Basin located near Sudbury, Ontario, Canada.

* November 7 – Canadian Pacific Railway: In Craigellachie, British Columbia, construction ends on a railway extending across Canada.

** President Abraham Lincoln signs into law the Pacific Railway Acts, authorizing construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad.

) – In the Kuperovskaya district of Vladivostok, a grand ceremonial inauguration of construction work on the Trans-Siberian Railway is carried out by the Tsesarevich Nikolay Alexandrovich and a religious service held.

Many moving to Canada settled in Schreiber, Ontario, because of the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway and many played a major part in its completion.

Feverish, competitive construction plans provoked the 1877 – 1880 war over right of way with the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.

By late 1880 William Bell had begun to organize railway construction in Utah that would become the Palmer controlled Denver and Rio Grande Western Railway in mid 1881.

Railway engineers handle the design, construction, and operation of railroads and mass transit systems that use a fixed guideway ( such as light rail or even monorails ).

The construction of the first major trunk railway in the Empire, the Vienna-Trieste Austrian Southern Railway, was completed in 1857, a valuable asset for trade and the supply of coal.

In 1880 Thomas Catron sold some of the grant to the Denver and Rio Grande Railway for the construction of their San Juan line and a service center at Chama.