Rep. James Cotten of Weatherford insisted that a water development bill passed by the Texas House of Representatives was an effort by big cities like Dallas and Fort Worth to cover up places like Paradise, a Wise County hamlet of 250 people.

With the Lombard invasion of Italy it was annexed to the Duchy of Benevento, until it was finally destroyed by the Byzantines of Constans II in 663, reducing to a small hamlet known as Quintodecimo ( referring to its distance of 15 miles from Benevento ).

The little hamlet of Anderson was named for Mr. John Anderson who was a Director in the South Western Railroad at the time it was extended from Oglethorpe to Americus in 1853.

The eldest of seven children, Housman was born at Valley House in Fockbury, a hamlet on the outskirts of Bromsgrove in Worcestershire, to Sarah Jane ( née Williams, married 17 Jun 1858 in Woodchester, Gloucester ) and Edward Housman ( whose family came from Lancaster ), and was baptized on 24 Apr 1859 at Christ Church, in Catshill.

From Oberglauheim to the next hamlet of Lutzingen the terrain of ditches, thickets and brambles was potentially difficult ground for the attackers.

Here, the Nebel was less of an obstacle, but the great battery positioned on the edge of the village enjoyed a good field of fire across the open ground stretching to the hamlet of Schwennenbach.

A worth was an enclosure like a farm or hamlet surrounded by a palisade.

As Greenwich Village was once a rural hamlet, to the north of the 17th century European settlement on Manhattan Island, its street layout is more haphazard than the grid pattern of the 19th-century grid plan ( based on the Commissioners ' Plan of 1811 ).

Peano was born and raised on a farm at Spinetta, a hamlet now belonging to Cuneo, Piedmont, Italy.

Jean-Jacques was left with his maternal uncle, who packed him, along with his own son, Abraham Bernard, away to board for two years with a Calvinist minister in a hamlet outside Geneva.

John Dominic Crossan, a noted New Testament scholar, remarked that Bagatti's archaeological drawings indicate just how small the village actually was, suggesting that it was little more than an insignificant hamlet.

A Pope at Avignon, the successor of Clement VI, he was a native of the hamlet of Les Monts, Diocese of Limoges ( today part of the commune of Beyssac, département of Corrèze ), and, after having taught civil law at Toulouse, he became successively Bishop of Noyon and Bishop of Clermont.

Some time before 1565 ( some sources say as early as 1500 ), an enormous deposit of graphite was discovered on the approach to Grey Knotts from the hamlet of Seathwaite in Borrowdale parish, Cumbria, England.

In 1919, when Howard was thirteen, Dr. Howard moved his family to the Central Texas hamlet of Cross Plains, and there the family would stay for the rest of Howard's life.

It was held at Max Yasgur's 600-acre ( 2. 4 km² ; 240 ha, 0. 94 mi² ) dairy farm in the Catskills near the hamlet of White Lake in the town of Bethel, New York, from August 15 to August 18, 1969.

Although freed in early 1831, he chose exile instead of life confined into the small hamlet which was requested of him by the police, moving to Geneva in Switzerland.

Because the city was situated on a low plain and, as a result, difficult to protect from attacks, the Zirid ruler decided to transfer his residence to the higher situated hamlet of Gárnata.

Started in 1783 and finished in 1787, to designs of the Queen's favoured architect, Richard Mique, the hamlet was complete with farmhouse, dairy, and mill.

The old town in the hilly inland was probably founded in the 10th century AD by some people from Locri, who had fled to the area to defend themselves from Saracen incursions ; in the following century it became a hamlet of the county of Grotteria and was home to various feudal lords.

Trying to calm her mind, during Fersen's first visit, and later after his return on 7 June 1784, the queen occupied herself with the creation of the Hameau de la reine, a model hamlet in the garden of the Petit Trianon with a mill and 12 cottages, 9 of which are still standing.

It first seems to have applied to a hamlet between Upton to the east and Chalvey to the west, roughly around the " Crown Crossroads " where the road to Windsor ( now the A332 ) met the Great West Road.

County officials first met in the Lake George Coffee House in the hamlet of Caldwell ( known today as Lake George Village ).

The Benedictine Abbey of St. James is mentioned for the first time in 1453, and around it a small hamlet developed with the centuries.

The first documented evidence of Dulwich is as a hamlet outside London in 967AD, granted by King Edgar to one of his thanes Earl Aelfheah.

Archeological excavations at Link Street exposed a building dating to the 11th or 12th century suggesting that Homerton existed before it was first recorded in 1343 .< ref >< cite > MoLAS ( TQ 3534 8504 summary of archeological investigation at Link St ) accessed: 20 October 2006 </ ref > The hamlet of Homerton ( Humberton or Hummerton, named for the farm of a woman named Hunburh ) developed for about a half-mile along the road on the north side of the now buried and lost Hackney Brook, within the vale formed by the brook.

Pinner was originally a hamlet, first recorded in 1231 as Pinnora, although the already archaic-ora ( meaning ' hill ') suggests its origins lie no later than c. 900.

This process would be extended by Nash in planning groups of buildings, the first example being Blaise Hamlet ( 1810 – 1811 ), here a group of nine asymmetrical cottages were laid out around a village green, Nikolaus Pevsner described the hamlet as ' the ne plus ultra of the Picturesque movement '.

For a long time Bussum was not more than a hamlet situated amongst the heathlands of Het Gooi and was first mentioned in 1306.

The hamlet of Hassan was first settled in 1854 and then organized in 1860 along Territorial Road in Section 21.

22, 1923 ), born in the hamlet of Berne the son of a blacksmith, was the first NYS trooper to be shot while making an arrest.

The community is named after Samuel S White, the first permanent resident in the town and founder of the hamlet.

The town was first settled around 1800, north of the current Schroon Lake hamlet.

* North Bush – A hamlet in the south part of the town on County Road 137 and the location of the first school in the town.

The hamlet was previously called " Log Mills " when it was first settled around 1816 due to the construction of a saw mill for logs.

Over the first thirty years, more than 250 houses and stables were built in Tuxedo Park, as well as over 100 homes, retail stores, and service establishments in the so-called hamlet.

* Oak Orchard On The Lake – A hamlet just west of the Oak Orchard River first settled as a summer resort community in about 1883.

The first village in Putnam County, the hamlet of Patterson, was originally called Frederickstown, which lent its name to the eastern part of the future Putnam County other than the oblong, which was called Southeast Precinct ( not the same as the current town of Southeast ).

A tract at the hamlet of Tyre was granted to Revolutionary War Colonel James Livingston The first outside settler, Ezekiel Crane, arrived about 1794.

* Risingville – A hamlet west of Thurston village, named after its first postmaster.

The hamlet of Centereach was first called West Middle Island, but primarily became known as New Village until the early 20th century.

The hamlet now called Jamesport was first settled in the 1690s and originally was called Aquebogue and later Lower Aquebogue when another hamlet was established to the west called Upper Aquebogue.

The submarine USS Holland ( SS-1 ), the first commissioned submarine in the U. S. Navy, along with six other Holland Torpedo Boat Company submarines were based in New Suffolk between 1899 and 1905 prompting the hamlet to claim to be the " First Submarine Base " in the United States.

* Hankins – A hamlet believed to be the site of the first settlement.