While Falmouth's maritime activity has much declined from its heyday, the docks are still a major contributor to the town's economy.

The river town of Baltimore thrived and was a major center of trade until the river was overshadowed by the railroad for purposes of trade and transportation ; a single house, built long after the town's heyday, is all that remains.

Businesses which formerly served US 66 travellers in the town's heyday included the Palmer Hotel, Rogers ’ Motel, Rest Haven Motel, Green Acres Motel and Avon Motor Court, Baker ’ s Cafe, Clint ’ s Cafe, Smith Store and Barrett ’ s Food Store, Mack ’ s Place and Fred ’ s 66 Bar.

It operated 24 hours a day during its 1950s heyday, but business diminished after the Turner Turnpike diverted cross-country traffic from the town's main street.

With the population increase during the town's silver mining heyday of the mid-sixteenth century came the need for a new church, which was built over a period 21 years and inaugurated in 1761.

The heyday of the town's prosperity as a trading port in the late 18th and early 19th century is shown by the large number of town houses of that period, many of which are now used for other purposes such as offices and shops.

The town's heyday as a seaside resort was during the late Victorian era ; the population nearly doubled from 4, 410 to 8, 442 between 1881 and 1901.

The red brick and stone Imperial Hotel which had been the largest in Malvern during the town's heyday as a spa in the second half of the 19th century, is still one of the largest buildings in Malvern and was built in 1860 by the architect E. W. Elmslie who also designed the Great Malvern railway station, the Council House, and The Grove in Avenue Road in 1867, originally to be his private residence which in 1927 became part of the Lawnside School for girls.

In its heyday, during the Communist regime, the factory employed about 5000 workers, about half of the town's population.

The population was an estimated 700 at the town's heyday.

A synagogue mosaic remains from Ein Gedi's heyday, including a Judeo-Aramaic inscription warning inhabitants against " revealing the town's secret " – possibly the methods for extraction and preparation of the much-prized balsam resin, though not stated outright in the inscription – to the outside world.

As a last witness to the town's economic heyday early in the last century, the former spinning works tower has been maintained as an industrial memorial.

In two minutes the body of Tilghman's former comrade, who had been killed by Blue Throat in a gambling brawl the previous night, was carried into the town's funeral parlor to be prepared for decent burial.

The real Franco-German frontier was beyond the town's limits.

He was in London `` searching records for our town's causes '' in 1600 with young Henry Sturley, the assistant schoolmaster.

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.

Barcino Nova is the town's Latin name meaning " new Barcelona "; Barcino was the Roman name for Barcelona in Spain from its foundation by Emperor Augustus in 10 BC, and it was only changed to Barcelona in the Middle Ages.

It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England, an important center of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders.

The town's name was changed to Columbus on March 20, 1821.

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 1996 a small memorial park north of the town's business district was dedicated to him.

This was important since towns very often depended on a good reputation for export of a narrow range of products, on which not only the guild's, but the town's, reputation depended.

By a Charter of Elizabeth I in 1589 the bailiff was replaced by a mayor, by which time the town's importance was dwindling.

( The town's name was changed to New Harmony after the Harmonists left in 1824.

The drink originated in Falkirk where it was particularly popular among the town's thirsty foundry workers.

Finally, in 1838 the town's name was changed to simply Jackson.

His father was a shipwright, ship owner and contractor, and served as the town's chief baillie, while his mother, Agnes Muirhead, came from a distinguished family and was well educated.

In 2006 a € 100, 000 computer-controlled mirror, 8 × 5 m, was installed to reflect sunlight into the town's piazza.

His father was primarily a farmer though he was also deacon of the local Congregational church, captain of the town's militia, and a founder of a local book society — a precursor to the public library.

The town's hospital was founded in the mid-15 century and remained in operation until the second half of the 19th century.

The Wyre was the town's first local commercial radio station and began broadcasting on 12 September 2005 from studios in Kidderminster.

A major change in the town centre road infrastructure was the construction of the ring road in the 1970s and 1980s, which relieved the town's growing congestion problem.

His birthplace was demolished in 1689 and the town's Melanchthonhaus built on its site in 1897.

In 1846 Matthew B. Goodwin, jeweler and watchmaker, became the town's first telegrapher in a dwelling he built for himself and his business `` two doors north of the Equinox House '' or `` one door north of the Bank, Manchester, Vermont ''.

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.

A legend first recorded in the late 16th century and reported in William Camden's Britannia accounts for the town's place-name, as ' halig ' ( holy ) and ' fax ' ( face ), by stating that the first religious settlers of the district brought the ' face ' of John the Baptist with them.

In 1871, Smith filed a claim with the federal government for the land around the buildings, and on August 20, 1873, he became the town's first postmaster.

In Estarreja in the Central region of Portugal, the town's first references to Carnival are noted in the 14th century, with " Flower Battles ", or richly decorated floats which paraded through Estarreja's streets.

Its tower hosts the world's first porcelain carillon, manufactured in 1929 on the occasion of the town's 1000-years-jubilee.

The name of the town means Thor's Harbour, and it may be named after the god of thunder and lightning in Norse mythology ; thus the town's coat of arms shows Thor's hammer Mjolnir, but more likely it was named after the first settler whose name then was Thor.

The town's name was first spelt by British settlers as Mafeking, but the name reverted to Mafikeng in 1980.

Although the official feast day of St. Joseph, the town's patron saint, is March 19, it's celebrated in Bagheria the first Sunday of August ; religious celebrations are held throughout the week leading up to Sunday, when more solemn ceremonies are initiated ; the following Monday evening festivities conclude with a fireworks display.

Wilde Lake was the first village area to be developed in Columbia ; accordingly, the town's first high school was Wilde Lake High School, which opened in 1971 as a " model school for the nation ".

One version of what is believed to be the town's oldest town seal, which the council used, and which dated from the first half of the 14th century, set the pattern with its elements for various civic coats of arms down to the present day.

Bayreuth was first given a railway connexion in 1853, when the Bayreuth – Neuenmarkt-Wirsberg railway was built at the town's expense.

October 2006 saw the opening of the town's first dedicated Municipal Art Gallery and visual arts centre, the Highlanes Gallery, housed in the former Franciscan Friary on St. Laurence Street.

* Soccer: In December 2005 the town's soccer team, Drogheda United, won the FAI Cup for the first time.

William Briwere also founded St John's hospital which, by the time of the Dissolution of the Monasteries under Henry VIII, was worth the substantial sum of almost 121 pounds, as well as starting the construction of the town's first stone bridge.

In 919 Edward the Elder built the town's first known fortress, on the south side of the River Ouse and there received the area's submission.

Two days later, on St Lawrence's day, Margaret went to mass at St Giles ', the town's Kirk, as her first public appointment.

The town's population remained below 10, 000 in this first decade of the nineteenth century.

The town's first railroad was built in 1855, connecting it with Löhne.

Many anchors from the second and first millennium BC have been discovered in the town's bay, a proof of active shipping since ancient times.

The street Sunset Boulevard has been associated with Hollywood film production since 1911, when the town's first film studio opened there.

He built a sawmill on Sucker Creek ( now Oswego Creek ), the town's first industry.