He was the town's first postmaster and one of Fannin County's earliest Justices of the Peace.

Henry Clay suggested the town's name ; he represented the United States at the Peace Commission.

Special town meetings may be held throughout the rest of the year if a minimum of certified signatures are gathered from registed voters ( 200 ), one is called for by the town's chief executive board and if no selectmen are in office this duty falls either to the Town Clerk or a Justice of the Peace.

His position also included duties as head of the school board, and Justice of the Peace and judge ; he established the town's first school, in November 1876 presided over the town's first marriage, Fannie Garrettson to Daniel Brown, and presided over numerous trials.

Some of their misadventures included a failed experiment in creating a bank ( first season ), getting swindled by a counterfeit money printer ( Diogenes Smith-who introduced the phrase " Wonderful World " into the series ), and Lum trying himself for a crime he didn't commit ( after all, he was simultaneously the town's only prisoner and Justice of the Peace ).

The town's technical school " Instituto Tecnico John F. Kennedy " was built by the Peace Corps.

John Vickers, the town's namesake, settled in the area in 1831.

In 1831, the town's name was changed to " Newstead ", reportedly on the advice of Abigail Fillmore, who was fond of the poetry of Lord Byron.

John Hallett had received a land grant from Stephen F. Austin in 1831 and after his death in 1836 his wife, Margaret Hallett, donated the land for the town's location.

On the outskirts of the town, coal had been dug since the 15th century and 300 men were employed in the town's coal pits in 1831.

This and the subsequent building of a railway station led to the rapid expansion of the town ; between 1831 and 1841 the town's population grew from 1, 876 to 3, 041.

By 1834 Schneidemühl had barely recovered from the worst outbreak of cholera of 1831, an epidemic that affected the town's burghers to such an extent that a special Protestant cholera cemetery had to be laid out in the town's suburb Berliner Vorstadt.

During the November Uprising of 1831 the town's population took part in the struggles against Russia, but the town was pacified by the Russian army on February 11, 1830.

All Captain Gibault took back to Salem were a few items for the town's East India Museum.

Oldenburg's contributions were soon exhausted and the boys had to turn to a wider circle of the town's learned, such as the pastor, to supplement the simple teaching.

A " significant " part of the town's inhabitants had, by the 16th century, converted to Protestantism, and were repressed during the French Wars of Religion.

Daniel's nephews, Jesse and Jonathan ( sons of brother Israel Boone ), were founders of the town's first church, Three Forks Baptist, still in existence today.

Morris made this omission because he received death threats while doing research ; the town's residents were afraid that Morris would reveal their secret.

As of the census of 2000, there were 8, 162 people, 1, 829 households, and 967 families residing in the town's central settlement, or census-designated place ( CDP ).

In 1957, 489 of the town's 1, 200 residents were reported to be Inuit.

A flood in 1875 covered the city of Marysville and when it subsided the town's streets were filled with debris and rocks washed down from the " hydraulicking " going on upstream.

Two 20-kilo bombs were set off about 200 meters from the town's entrance, damaging the bus's front tires and forcing it off the road.

Treece and Picher, twin communities straddling the Kansas-Oklahoma border, were once one of the United States ' largest sources of zinc and lead, but over a century of unregulated disposal of mine tailings led to groundwater contamination and lead poisoning in the town's children, eventually resulting in a mandatory Environmental Protection Agency buyout and evacuation.

Sometimes, wars and genocide end a town's life ; this happened to the Swedish town of Sjöstad, Närke, in 1260, when the town's 700 merchants crossed the ice of Lake Vättern and were cut down by the Danes.

* Kingston Road School ( 1903-1992 when replaced by Kingscroft ; the original plural title denoted that there were separate schools for boys and girls ; its site is now occupied by the town's new Police Station )

One of the main incidents in the town's history was an attack by pirates from Algiers in 1583, after which 400 people were taken away.

All of Peres ' relatives who remained in Wiszniewo in 1941 were murdered during the Holocaust, many of them ( including Rabbi Meltzer ) burned alive in the town's synagogue.

Buildings were previously limited to heights of, so as not to overshadow the town's historic buildings.

Despite Schiele's family connections in Krumau, he and his lover were driven out of the town by the residents, who strongly disapproved of their lifestyle, including his alleged employment of the town's teenage girls as models.

By 1640, the town's theocratic government and nine-square grid plan were in place, and the town was renamed Newhaven from Quinnipiac.

Among these were the burning of the synagogue in Będzin, where the town's Jewish residents were burned to death.

Infamously, several thousand of the town's inhabitants, men and women, were taken to the town's bullring after the battle and after machine guns were set up on the barriers around the ring, an indiscriminate slaughter began.

After 1610, the cloth industry declined but the wealth of the town was little affected until about 1640, when the activities of the Council were suspended and the town's population promptly fell by 20 %.

The town's first mayor was Melville B. Parker was chosen and as the borough's first mayor, after J. H.

* The Parker Tavern-The town's oldest remaining 17th Century structure, built in 1694.

The island and a portion of the marshes south of Mud Creek ( part of the town's northern border ) are protected as part of the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge.

Despite its controversy and the fact that the cast included Steve Carlson, Jane Elliot ( fresh from her run as Tracy on GH & Carrie on GL ), and Lara Parker ( famous as the witch Angelique on the cult Dark Shadows ) and that it was produced and sometimes directed by daytime veteran actress Susan Flannery, A New Day in Eden only lasted 13 episodes, and its cliffhanger left the question of who was the town's serial rapist up in the air.

The town's spring is described by his son James Merrill in the poem " Two From Florida ," published in The Inner Room ( 1988 ).

A turning point in the town's history came in 1603 when Margrave Christian, the son of the elector, John George of Brandenburg, moved the aristocratic residence from the castle of Plassenburg above Kulmbach to Bayreuth.

Writer George Mackay Brown was born and lived most of his life in the town, and is buried in the town's cemetery overlooking Hoy Sound.

The town was most likely named for George II's son Frederick, who was Prince of Wales during the time of the town's original conception.

Early inhabitants included Robert Morris, Sr., agent for a Liverpool shipping firm who greatly influenced the town's growth ; his son, Robert Morris, Jr., known as " the financier of the Revolution ;" Jeremiah Banning, sea captain, war hero, and statesman ; The Reverend Thomas Bacon, Anglican clergyman who wrote the first compilation of the laws of Maryland ; Matthew Tilghman, known as the " patriarch of Maryland " and " father of statehood "; and Colonel Tench Tilghman, aide-de-camp to George Washington and the man who carried the message of General Cornwallis's surrender to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia.

An account of the town's early history was written by local historian George Sheldon and published in the late nineteenth century.

( While George I died on June 11, 1727, the reports would not have reached the colonies until after the town's incorporation.

Due to the town's small size and the fascination with the trailer park stereotype, what were sometimes smaller incidents caused major headlines in the media of the area: In 1970, then-mayor George Reiter attempted to replace the female village clerk because he believed men were temperamentally better suited for the position, a view held by many of his supporters in the city.

Liberal, MO, named after the Liberal League in Lamar, Missouri ( to which the town's organizer belonged ), was started as an atheist, " freethinker " utopia in 1880 by George Walser, an anti-religionist, agnostic lawyer.

Although George Lovelock had yet to set out for Nevada at that time, the author has acknowledged that he had the town's founder in mind in his fictitious Trent Lovelock.

The town's present day name owes to Mr. George Hayes, who was running for representative from Cherokee County in the fall election of 1860.

The town's charter was sponsored by George Washington in Virginia's House of Burgesses.

On July 4, 2002, then President George W. Bush gave a public speech at the town's courthouse.

George Washington, his family members and several of the colonial elite were among the town's first landowners.

Guisborough has a King George's Field in memory of King George V, and the town's football team Guisborough Town FC plays on the King George V Ground, adjacent to the playing fields.

Built in 1873 as an opera house, the theater was rebuilt to Spanish Colonial Revival style designs by architects George Washington Smith and Lutah Maria Riggs for the Community Arts Music Association in the early 1920s, and opened in August 1924, during a period in which civic groups in Santa Barbara were beginning to unify the town's architectural look around a Spanish Colonial style.

Notable buildings include the Perpendicular parish church ( St Olaf's ) in the village of Poughill just outside of Bude, the parish church of St Michael and All Angels ( built in 1835 and enlarged in 1876 ; the architect was George Wightwick ), Ebbingford Manor, and the town's oldest house, Quay Cottage in the centre of town.

They moved to Lillooet in 1931 when George campaigned for the town's seat in the provincial legislature, and launched the once-famous Bridge River-Lillooet News.

George W. M. Reynolds, one of the most popular British authors of the early Victorian era, moved to Herne Bay in 1854 and became one of the town's Improvement Commissioners.

Ridgefield Golf Course is the town's municipal 18 hole golf course designed by George Fazio and Tom Fazio and opened in 1974.

The Benjamin Caryl House at 107 Dedham St. dates from about 1777 and was home to Dover's first minister, Benjamin Caryl, his son George, who was the town's first doctor, and their descendants until 1897.

He made his maiden speech on 4 July 1997, in which he spoke of the visit of King George V in 1929 to Bognor Regis to take in the sea air, hence the suffix of Regis on the town's name.

The town's George cinema was put up for sale in the autumn of 1982, but a surprisingly good run of E. T.

The town's prosperity came from the local maltings, owned by George Fawbert and John Barnard ; in 1839 they set up the Fawbert and Barnard charity to fund local children and their education, funding a local infant school that still exists today.