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.

The town's earliest growth took place in Normansville named for its location along the Normans Kill, a creek, which forms the town's border with Albany.

* 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 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.

* House of the History of Nijmegen information centre about the history of Nijmegen ; free entrance ; expositions about a theme of the town's history ; touch screen which leads you to the 50 highlights of the towns ' history: ' Canon of Nijmegen '; reading table.

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.

Today Mazara is widely considered to be one of the most important fishing centres of Italy ; tussles about fishing rights, especially with the North-African countries, figure large in the town's recent history, boat sequestrations being a common event.

The most distinctive aspect of the town's history is that it was moved to the west in the 1950s to allow for the expansion of Lake Hume.

Wittenberg's civic coat of arms conveys with its various heraldic elements something of the town's history.

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.

The town's modern history begins in 1844, when Iginio Scarpa, a rich merchant from Rijeka, founded Villa Angiolina.

The town's history is poorly recorded and is held mostly by local people and their stories of the past.

An important source for the history of 17th century Transylvania, for the period of 1606-1666, are the records of Georg Kraus, the town's notary.

A mural in Haleburg depicts the town's agricultural history and its ties to the nearby Chattahoochee River.

Currently, the Port Alexander Historical Society is undertaking the project of creating a small museum celebrating the town's history.

Stromness Museum reflects these aspects of the town's history ( displaying for example important collections of whaling relics, and Inuit artefacts brought back as souvenirs by local men from Greenland and Arctic Canada ).

Due to the town's history of racial strife, the African-American percentage has decreased about 10 times over in the 20th century.

" Biscoe " was the town's official name for most of its history, being written in parenthesis.

The town was close to lead mines and mining played a big part in the town's early history.

Author K. Martin Gardner expounds on this literary history, and Twain's friendship with renowned scientist of the time, Nikola Tesla, in his novel of the town's name. Copperopolis

To keep up with the town's Swedish history they have most retail businesses designed in Swedish architecture.

For much of the town's history the fields around Kingsburg were mostly grape vineyards which produce mainly raisin and table grapes ; however in 2002 a large surplus of raisins and grapes drove the price for these commodities down to an all time low.

He was one of the most powerful residents in the town's history, dividing up the lands into large ranches for friends and family.

Currently, the town is at a crossroads trying to reconcile the town's rural history and character with exploding residential and now even commercial development.

Washington's economy has changed considerably over the course of the town's history.

Plans are to expand the celebration of " the town's worst day in history " in future years, according to the museum's executive director, Jerry Roberts.

The Cedar Key Museum State Park depicts the town's 19th century history and displays sea shells and Indian artifacts from the collection of Saint Clair Whitman.