On 25 May 1824, the town plat was registered with Wayne County as " Annsarbour "; this represents the earliest known use of the town's name.

The earliest mention of the town's coat of arms is from 1421, although it is believed to have been arranged since the beginning of the 14th century.

The county seat, Williamsburg, is also named for Colonel Whitley, with the first court held at the home of the town's earliest resident, Samuel Cox.

* Blackbeard the pirate, who figured prominently during the town's earliest days.

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

The Blackland Museum houses everything from antique farm equipment to personal and household items used by the town's earliest inhabitants.

Although this made Chelmsford one of the earliest town's to receive electric street lighting, the Council later decided to have it removed because gas was cheaper and the Council owned the gasworks.

The town's earliest history recounts Indian assaults, raids and captivities.

The town's earliest settlers chiefly comprised English Quakers from Dutchess County, New York, in the 1780s as well as a group of settlers who were originally from the town of Kent, Connecticut.

It began in ancient times as a simple double ring fort, the outline of which is still noticeable, and is today an historic burial site holding the remains of people who lived in the earliest days of the town's existence, including the Brownlow family.

Also notable to the town's architecture is the Old Baptist Chapel ( on Church Street ) built in about 1655, as one of the earliest examples from that denomination, behind the chapel is a small cemetery of those who were members of the chapel.

Milton's Walter Baker Chocolate Factory to the rightA powder mill established in 1674 may be the earliest in the colonies, taking advantage of the town's water power sites.

The town's name is recorded in its earliest form as Mailros, ' the bare peninsula ' ( Old Welsh or Brythonic ), referring to the original site of the monastery, recorded by the Venerable Bede, in a bend of the river Tweed.

The town's earliest existing charter is from 1283, granted by Henry de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, confirming rights granted by one of his forebears between 1147 and 1177.

However, the town's earliest known charter dates from 1558, with its modern development taking place after the building of the Aberdeenshire Canal linking Port Elphinstone with Aberdeen Harbour in 1806.

The earliest written evidence of the town's existence is dated 1300, and is to be found in the Câmpulung church.

Accounts from Hingham's earliest years indicate some friction between the disparate groups, culminating in an 1645 episode involving the town's " trainband ", when some Hingham settlers supported Eames, and others supported Bozoan Allen, a prominent early Hingham settler and Hobart ally who came from King's Lynn in Norfolk, East Anglia.

Many of the builders were ship carpenters, and the form was common throughout East Anglia, the home of many of the town's earliest settlers.

Although the leather and textile trades were still major features of the Birmingham economy in the early 16th century, the increasing importance of the manufacture of iron goods, as well as the interdependence between the manufacturers of Birmingham and the raw materials of the area that later became known as the Black Country, were recognised by the antiquary John Leland when he travelled through in 1538, providing the town's earliest surviving eyewitness description.

Saltcoats ' name is derived from the town's earliest industry when salt was harvested from the sea water, carried out in small cottages along the beach known as ' cots ' in Scots.

In 1820, a thermal spring was discovered in Izola, leading to the town's earliest forms of tourism.

The earliest mention of the town's name is in the Boldon Book in 1183 as ' Hoctona '.

The club was formed in 1879 by members of the town's cricket team, and played their earliest games at the cricket ground in North Marine Road.

In 1765, it had 6674 inhabitants, but emigration, particularly to Mexico, slowed the town's growth in the period before the Second World War.

Between 1990 and 1999 the town's annual mean population growth was-0. 6 %, though between 1999 and 2007 this increased to an average of-0. 1 %.

He also noted that a lack of water crippled the town's growth.

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.

In the case of Montalcino, gradual economic decline has recently been reversed by economic growth due to the increasing popularity of the town's famous wine Brunello di Montalcino, made from the sangiovese grosso grapes grown within the comune.

The town's population increased from 5, 504 in 1961 to 8, 877 in 2001, a growth of 61 % over forty years.

Following the Seven Years ' War, the town's population fell below 6, 000, but an economic revival based on the linen and tobacco industries brought growth from the 1780s.

The town's ironworks fostered the growth of other industrial fields in the area.

The location of the station shifted the focus of the town's subsequent growth away from the original village centre.

The location of the station shifted the focus of the town's subsequent growth away from the original village centre.

In April 2007, the Eller College of Management conducted an assessment survey of Sahuarita residents due to the town's 529 % growth since the 2000 Census, because data from that census " on workforce and community characteristics is no longer applicable.

Introduction of electric trolley car service furthered the town's growth.

Historically, however, Dublin's economy was based on the local cotton, corn, and soybean trades, which blossomed as the town's central location enabled it to thrive with the growth of the railroad.

The lumber company paved the way for the town's growth.

In the midst of steady growth and changing times, the town's founders struggled to maintain their positions of authority.

During this time, the majority of the town's growth was due to white flight from Gary.

The town's strategic location, reasonable housing costs, and high level of municipal services have contributed to its growth in recent years.

This did not hamper the town's growth, however, and by the end of 1912 the business section was rebuilt offering better facilities than before.

* The Bloomfield Library has been housed in 3 different locations in the town and has continued to expand in size due to the town's growth.

By 1830 the population was over 600, but the town's growth in the 19th century was slowed by numerous fires, a cholera epidemic in 1833, and the lack of turnpike access.

The town's initial growth was fueled by three fresh water springs in the area and later by coal and lumber industries.

The Susquehanna Canal ( which had several owners and several names over the years, including the Maryland Canal ) was completed in 1812 and contributed much toward the town's growth.

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.

In addition to agriculture, industry such as lumber milling and shipbuilding and, in the 20th century, factories making barrels and baskets for truck crops, and the canning of those crops, aided the town's growth.

Commercial growth was restricted to the town's main thoroughfare, US Route 20, and significant tracts of open space — including much wetland – were preserved in the northern half of town.