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.

We learn in the former poem that his father came from Cyme in Aeolis ( on the coast of Asia Minor, a little south of the island Lesbos ), and crossed the sea to settle at a hamlet, near Thespiae in Boeotia, named Ascra, " a cursed place, cruel in winter, hard in summer, never pleasant " ( Works, l. 640 ).

By the 14th century, a hamlet of fishermen's dwellings had established itself around the cove at Porthleven, named from the old Cornish " porth " ( harbour ) and " leven " ( level or smooth ).

It is named after the now demolished Eleanor cross that stood there, in what was once the hamlet of Charing.

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.

It is part of the Yuba City Metropolitan Statistical Area within the Greater Sacramento CSA, and includes a hamlet historically named Stafford.

With a population just under 2400 people, this hamlet at the head of the Manokin River was named for Princess Anne of Great Britain, daughter of King George II.

Founded in 1881 and 1882, the hamlet was named after the Potawatomi chief Topenebee, who primarily resided in southwestern Michigan.

It used clay from the area of the Hay Creek headwaters, close to Goodhue, near a hamlet named Claybank.

* Stilwells, a hamlet one and a half miles south of Whitehouse Station named after the Stilwell family

In 2005, CNN / Money Magazine named the Delmar ZIP Code ( an area larger than the Delmar hamlet or CDP ) as one of the " Best Places to Live " in America, rating it the 22nd best place to live among what it called " Great American Towns.

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

The hamlet is named after early resident John Stannard.

It was initially occupied by the Frecks family, local landowners of some repute ( for whom the hamlet of Frecks is named ), whose extended family was torn apart by the ravages of the Civil War, both emotionally and through the loss of several members.

* Dodge – A hamlet in the southeast corner of the town, named after an early family.

* Findley Lake – A hamlet named after the lake and the location of many summer homes.

* Moons or Moons Station – A hamlet on the eastern town border, east of Kabob and south of Cassadaga village on Route 60, named for DC Moon, a primary supporter of and contributor of land in the area for the Dunkirk, Allegheny Valley and Pittsburgh Railroad.

* Ellenburg Depot – A hamlet east of Ellenburg on US-11 named for the former train depot.

The hamlet is named after Nathaniel Lyon who moved to the base of the mountain that also bears his name in 1803 and died circa 1850.

* Arthursburg – A hamlet by the north town line, named for Chester A. Arthur, twenty-first president of the United States.

* Stormville – A hamlet in the eastern part of the town named after early settlers, brothers Jacob and Rupert Storm.

* Spencer Corners – A hamlet named after early settler Philip Spencer, northeast of Millerton.

* Black Hills – A hamlet named for the abnormally black soil located in the hills.

* Trudeau – A hamlet northeast of Saranac Lake village on NY-3, named for Dr. Edward Livingston Trudeau.