Both the laboratory and the nearby city of Oak Ridge were built by the United States Army Corps of Engineers in less than a year on isolated farmland in the mountains of East Tennessee.

* Rock star and 2006 American Idol contestant Chris Daughtry is from nearby suburban McLeansville and is a resident of nearby Oak Ridge.

Elizabethtown is home to Continental Press, White Oak Mills ( an animal feed plant ), Elizabethtown College, the Masonic Village, a large Masterfoods USA ( a division of Mars, Incorporated ) plant, Messick's Farm and Construction Equipment, and numerous smaller businesses .< sup ></ sup > Many residents commute to the nearby cities of Harrisburg and Lancaster for work.

After sharp fighting, the Union troops entrenched nearby along the Boydton Plank Road and Johnson withdrew to his lines at White Oak Road.

In reality he lived in nearby Honor Oak.

Parliament Hill also features in Notes on a Scandal ( 2006 ) together with the nearby areas of Gospel Oak and Camden Town.

The Nightcap and nearby Koonyum Ranges are the only place on earth where the Peach Myrtle and Nightcap Oak can be found, while the Minyon Quandong is virtually endemic and is only known from a single tree outside these ranges.

Pell City increased its size in 1956 when the nearby towns of Eden and Oak Ridge were merged with the city.

The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department serves Yucaipa — including the nearby unincorporated towns of Mentone, Oak Glen, Forest Falls, Angeleus Oaks, and Mountain Home Village — from its regional station at 34282 Yucaipa Boulevard.

In recent years, the tribe has contributed new growth in this hamlet with revenues from nearby Black Oak Casino, which is owned and operated by the Tuolumne Band.

Public Libraries: Ventura County Library-one of their branches is in Oak Park: Oak Park Library and also, the nearby Agoura branch of the County of Los Angeles Public Library.

The town of Oak View " sprang up " in the late 1940s and early 1950s as a bedroom community primarily, although not exclusively, for those who worked in the oil industry in nearby Ventura.

Besides nearby downtown Ojai, Oak View is the only other town in the Ojai Valley with a discernible " downtown ", which has developed along the Ventura Avenue / Highway 33 corridor, and includes a post office, a grocery store and a grocery mart, one bank, a Thai restaurant, a coffee house / restaurant, a Mexican restaurant, a pizza parlor, two automobile repair shops, two tire shops, two self-serve gasoline stations, two coffee shops, a computer repair shop, an equipment rental yard, several hair stylists, a pet supplies store, a bar, a liquor store, a walk-in medical office, a real estate office, a car wash, a laundromat, a used car dealership, a tanning salon, a Sheriff's post, a video store, and other service and retail oriented businesses.

In the 1960s Oak Parkers began a concerted effort to avoid the destructive racial housing practices occurring in nearby communities.

In 2010, the festival was moved to nearby Royal Oak.

The first settlers came from nearby Birmingham and Royal Oak, Michigan, as well as the states of New York and Vermont.

The Oak Ballroom, completed by the Works Progress Administration in 1937 and now listed on the National Register of Historic Places, was built using dozens of native oak trees hauled to the building site from the nearby Platte River using horse and buggies.

By 1927, the wealthy Harrison Williams had established himself at his estate " Oak Point " at Bayville, on nearby Pine Island.

Charles was also a principal owner of the West Plank Road Company whose nearby Bethania-Fayetteville timbered highway opened Oak Ridge to the commerce and culture of eastern North Carolina.

The nearby mining pit was recently closed, with active operations moved to the east of Burr Oak State Park, but the loading station is still at the old site because of the location of the railroad.

Tourist activity from nearby Burr Oak State Park as well as hunting in various nearby public lands also supports the economy to a small extent.

* Singer Glen Campbell was born in Billstown and raised in nearby Delight in Pike County.

Unlike other cities in the area, Page was founded in 1957 as a housing community for workers and their families during the construction of nearby Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River.

It is the birthplace of country musician Glen Campbell, though the actual early home of the Country Music Hall of Fame inductee was in nearby Billstown, which Campbell describes as a " suburb " of Delight ( and too small for most maps ).

The Riverside County Sheriff's Department provides police services to the entire Perris Valley area ( including the nearby towns / areas of Mead Valley, Quail Valley and Glen Valley, and the Cities of Canyon Lake and newly-incorporated Menifee ) from its regional station on 4th Street ( in the former headquarters of the now-disbanded Perris Police Department ).

The Portland & Ogdensburg Railroad began service to Glen station at nearby Bartlett in the early 1870s, and several hotels were built to accommodate a growing infusion of tourists.

Blanding is a gateway to an abundance of nearby natural and archaeological resources, including The Dinosaur Museum, Natural Bridges National Monument, Monument Valley and the Four Corners area, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area ( Lake Powell ), Cedar Mesa archaeological and wilderness area, the San Juan River including Goosenecks State Park, and the Needles district of Canyonlands National Park.

The town's economy is based mostly around the two nearby ski resorts, Sugarbush Resort and Mad River Glen.

In 1898, it was rechartered as the Deepwater Railway, with modest plans to extend to nearby coal mines at Glen Jean.

Severely shaken, Johnson moved to Glen Cove, Long Island, and the next year bought a house in nearby Locust Valley, where Richard Lippold and his family resided.

Smith and the blender Andrew Usher sole permission to use the brand, but permitted other distilleries to hyphenate their distillery name with the " Glenlivet " name, which resulted in new distillery names such as The Glen Moray-Glenlivet Distillery, a distillery which is situated nearby.

The Grand Union Canal runs from Wistow, south of Wigston, to nearby Kilby Bridge, and for several miles through South Wigston, Glen Parva, Blaby and on towards Leicester city.

Featured events included an annual Toronto Symphony rendition of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, complete with the firing of the guns from the nearby HMCS Haida, and often performances by well established acts, such as BB King, Glen Campbell, Kenny Rogers, Johnny Cash, Dizzy Gillespie, Pat Metheny and Canadian acts like Lighthouse, Bruce Cockburn, The Nylons, Luba, Men Without Hats, Doug and the Slugs, Parachute Club and Red Rider.

Selick was born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, the son of Melanie and Charles Selick, and was raised in nearby Rumson.

Although smaller than nearby shopping centres such as Knox or Chadstone, the Glen houses a substantial collection of shops, including supermarkets, a food court named Diners Life and a number of smaller clothing stores.

Elsternwick Park nearby and Elsternwick Park Golf Club bordered by Nepean Highway and Glen Huntly Road have always been connected with the suburb name of Elsternwick.

Trips upstream from the nearby Paria Riffle may be made without special permit ( other than a day use boating fee ) and users may travel upstream on calm waters to the foot of Glen Canyon Dam.

The district also has its own community radio station that was initially started in the nearby village of Deepwater in 1998 and now also has a studio in Glen Innes.

Two branch railroads connected to the main line at Horseshoe Curve in the early-20th century ; both the Kittanning Run Railroad and the railroad owned by the Glen White Coal and Lumber Company followed their respective creeks to nearby coal mines.

Though Yarra Glen was a small settlement, its station was often used for supplying Melbourne with produce from nearby farms.

The entrance to the glen from above is on Rannoch Moor to the east, below the mountain of Meall a ' Bhuiridh ; Glen Etive runs to the south from nearby.

Alta is one of three remaining ski resorts in America that prohibits snowboarders, along with nearby competitor Deer Valley and Vermont's Mad River Glen.

One year later, amid a general renaming, the station was given the name of the nearby creek, Glenbrook, which Sir John Jamison thought came from Regents Glen.

In 1898, the Deepwater Railway was incorporated, and an extension was planned to reach nearby coal deposits in the general area of Glen Jean.