Mora is the home of a gigantic Dala horse, and a Mora clock commemorating the town's Swedish roots.

The town's agricultural roots, notably as the birthplace of the Geier Hitch, are fast becoming a dim memory.

Tourism also plays a major role in Vernal's economy due to the town's roots in the Old West and being a large site of ancient dinosaur fossils.

The Festival's roots can be traced to 1962 when Ontario lawyer and playwright Brian Doherty staged a summertime " Salute to Shaw " in the town's courthouse, a venue later known as the Courthouse Theatre.

The culmination of the day involves the town's Standard Bearer casting, or flying, the town's standard ( A St Andrew's cross with the town seal placed in the centre ) in the Market Place in memory of Fletcher's " O ' Flodden Field ", consolidating the ceremony's late-medieval / early-modern historical roots.

* Renfrew was the bi-annual host and sponsor of the Ottawa Valley Lumber Baron Festival, a celebration of the town's roots in the logging industry.

There are several Christian churches, including the Cameron Memorial Uniting Church and St Andrews Presbyterian Church which hail from the town's Scottish roots ; as well as the Holy Trinity Anglican and St Patrick's Catholic Churches, Baptist, Assembly of God, Seventh Day Adventist and other smaller congregations.

The date and circumstances of the town's foundation are unknown.

This remained the town's name to date.

While sources seem to disagree on the exact date and even the year of the town's incorporation, the town's own official site provides a detailed account of the process and the dates.

The new Western Electric plant was finished in 1974 and they helped bring the town's sewer plant up to date.

It is to celebrate the town's incorporation date of August 6, 1694.

The actual date of the town's foundation is not precisely known, but it is known that by 1373, Ostrołęka was one of the biggest towns in the surrounding area.

In Medieval times, the swordsmiths of Solingen coined the town's image, which is preserved to this date.

The town's formal charter for a weekly market and yearly fair date from a royal grant to Hugh Nevil in 1205, in which the founder's name is given as his father – in – law Stephen de Camera.

The town's founding date has up to now never been established or known.

This year is considered to be the official date of town's foundation.

The date of the town's foundation is unknown.

Due to the wealth of Mount Morgan, Rockhampton weathered the severe economic depression of the 1890s and many of the town's substantial brick and stone public buildings date from this period.

The date of the town's foundation is unknown.

An archaeological dig in May 2006 revealed that the town's ancestors may date back further than 250 BC.

Apart from the Castle and Friary most of the town's buildings date from the mid-18th century onwards when its sale out of Butler ownership led to the large-scale grant of leases and the subsequent growth of industries and buildings.

A popular theory of the town's origin makes it a foundation of an Atlinge, and certainly burgh ( or burh ) indicates that it was fortified at an early date.

Many of Portadown's streets have widely used but unofficial nicknames, some of which date back from the town's early days.

Most of the current town's streets date from the mid to late 19th century.

The remains of the town's public baths, lying immediately west of the wall, were excavated in four seasons from 1936 to 1939 by Dame Kathleen Kenyon and date from approximately 160 AD.

On the town's present-day outskirts lies Tulloch Castle, parts of which may date back to the 12th-century building.

Many of the town's residential, commercial and institutional buildings date from the 19th century.

Later fires in 1706 and 1864 destroyed most medieval and Georgian architecture, and a large proportion of the town's listed buildings date from the Victorian period onwards.

The town's vicinity is rich in ancient kurgans and pagan shrines, some of which date back to the 10th century BCE.

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

Jews, whose recorded presence in the town went back to the mid-fifteenth century, comprised about half of the town's total population.

Its location in an old herring smokery harks back to the town's status as a major fishing port.

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 ).

Popular hiking areas of the island include the town's Conservation Area, often referred to as " The Area ", and the back shore rocks, located toward the East End.

The town's older cemeteries contain tombstones dating back to the early 19th century.

Today, the Stevensville Historic District contains roughly 100 historic structures dating back to the town's early days.

" Standish, who owned the town's first business ( a sawmill ), had the name changed back.

Condominiums and townhouses have been constructed on the city's waterfront to bring residents back to the river, the town's starting place.

The pamphlet's authors, glancing back at the difficult economic times of the previous decade, asked and answered the question of the town's future prosperity:

Crockett sent many letters back to Tennessee, telling of an area with an abundance of honey-filled trees, thus the town's name.

Today, though, native speakers of Alsatian are dying out, and fewer of the town's residents can trace their ancestry back to the original Castro colonists.

She becomes friends with the town's druggist ( pharmacist ), Murphy Jones ( James Garner ), but a romance between them seems unlikely due to Murphy's age and because Emma allows her ex-husband, Bobby Jack Moriarty ( Brian Kerwin ), to move back in with her and their 12-year-old son, Jake ( Corey Haim ).

In the local legend of the town's founding " St. Ronan Cleik't the Deil by the hind leg and banished him ", possibly a metaphor for the monks bringing Christian learning back into these regions.

On the back of the Industrial Revolution, Oldham developed an extensive coal mining sector, correlated to supporting the local cotton industry and the town's inhabitants, though there is evidence of small scale coal mining in the area as early as the 16th century.

Torquay Town was desperate to join its local rivals in the league and after many discussions Babbacombe at last agreed to a merger, enabling the new club to become the sole representative of the town and turn professional to further its case for league election, the new team was to be called Torquay United again, reverting back to the town's name of circa 1910.

An action group, Wantage Rejuvenated, is being sponsored by the town's chamber of commerce to try to bring business back into the area and inject new life into the town.

The town's shipbuilding industry remained closed, with the marchers given £ 1 each for the train fare back from London.

* In a 2011 episode of Who Do You Think You Are ?, Ashley Judd traced her direct lineage back to William Brewster, the town's namesake.

Pocklington gets its name via the Old English " Poclintun " from the Anglian settlement of Pocel's ( or Pocela's ) people and the Old English word " tun " meaning farm or settlement, but though the town's name can only be traced back to around 650 AD, the inhabitation of Pocklington as a site is thought to extend back a further 1, 000 years or more to the Bronze Age.

Yamana District was merged into Iwata District in 1896, and the town's name was changed back to Fukuroi in 1909.

Some structures still stand dating back to the town's operational years: Lil's Saloon ; the town office ; the former home of Lucy Lane, which is now the main museum but was originally the town's post office and courthouse ; Smitty's Gallery ; the general store ; and Joe's Saloon.