However, two large Confederate corps assaulted them from the northwest and north, collapsing the hastily developed Union lines, sending the defenders retreating through the streets of town to the hills just to the south.

As a direct result of this conflict Enniskillen developed not only as a market town but also as a garrison, which became home to two regiments.

Although the surface is uneven, the town developed into an agricultural community.

Despite the attacks, the Harmonists developed Economy into a prosperous factory town, engaged in farming on a large scale, and maintained a brewery, distillery, and wine-making operation.

For many years, Kinglassie was a weaving village but in the 19th and 20th centuries it developed as a mining town.

Around this fort a town gradually developed, which became the centre of a small but important state of great strategic value to France, Germany and the Netherlands.

In the decades that followed, the town developed under the castle ’ s protection.

The university was designed in the Brutalist style and developed by the renowned town planner Walter Abraham who also oversaw the next 20 years of planning and development for the university.

The Bend subsequently developed a service-based economy to support the shipyard and gradually began to acquire all the amenities of a growing town.

Very elaborate and complex schemes for town defences were developed in the Netherland and France but these belong mainly to the post-medieval periods.

This was not an issue in an era where the major highways became Main Street in every town along the way and inexpensive land at the edge of town could be developed with motels, car lots, filling stations, lumber yards, amusement parks, roadside diners, drive-in restaurants and theatres and countless other small roadside businesses.

Suburban settlements developed around the city walls, on the river islands and on the right bank, with some ( Ostrów Tumski, Śródka, Chwaliszewo, Ostrówek ) obtaining their own town charters.

Once siege guns were developed the techniques for assaulting a town or a fortress became well known and ritualized.

The town also had a highly developed drainage system and, judging from the fine artwork, its citizens were clearly sophisticated and relatively wealthy people.

The oldest organised indigenous group in Trinidad and Tobago is the Santa Rosa Carib Community centred in the town of Arima, although several new groups have developed in recent years.

The center of the town has kept its very bourgeois atmosphere, while more middle-class neighborhoods have developed around the train stations and in the outskirts of the city.

His interest in trains also developed in Marceline, a town that owed its existence to the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway which ran through it.

The town developed beneath the castle, which the Count of Gruyere had built on top of the hill, to control the upper Saanen valley.

The town developed separately of the castle.

In the 11th century the Castle of the Alhambra was developed as a walled town which became a military stronghold that dominated the whole city.

Winchester developed from the Roman town of Venta Belgarum, which developed from an Iron Age oppidum.

Municipal greenery ( 560 ha, 6. 5 % of the town area ) developed in the form of numerous parks, green spots and three cemeteries over a century-old.

Monmouth developed primarily as a market town, and agricultural centre, rather than as a centre of industry.

In the Osirian temple at Denderah, an inscription ( translated by Budge, Chapter XV, Osiris and the Egyptian Resurrection ) describes in detail the making of wheat paste models of each dismembered piece of Osiris to be sent out to the town where each piece is discovered by Isis.

In 1875, he sold the mill to Jacob Bartles ( for whom the town of Bartlesville would be named ), who modified the mill to produce wheat flour.

The town lies among rich, fertile land, ideal for growing cotton, soybeans, rice, corn, wheat, and other crops.

His donation of land for a railroad station site established the town as the center of the Valley's booming wheat business.

In the late 19th century, the town also boasted a water-driven mill for grinding wheat to flour.

The farms immediately around the town primarily produce corn, soybeans, and wheat.

The town has a strong agriculture economy with wheat, oats and barley as the main crops as well as significant cattle and sheep ranches.

Although the surface of the town is " rough and uneven, and in some parts rocky and mountainous ," farmers found it suitable for pasturage, as well as for cultivating wheat and potatoes.

The name stems from the agricultural use of the town lands, the growing of wheat.

West of the town in the Great Plains the countryside is rich agricultural land, especially for wheat, soybeans, and cattle.

By 1884 the town had an estimated 250 inhabitants, three steam gristmills and cotton gins, and three general stores and shipped cotton, livestock, and wheat.

In one version, Shields says, a wheat and alfalfa farmer named Pierre Apollinaire DeRoubaix, who moved to the area in 1870, called it Erda after a town in France where he once lived.

The shield in its upper quadrant, displays a sailing vessel of the period, and below the tobacco leaf, the first commodity, overlaid with shafts of wheat, the later commodity that supported the town.

As the 1880s wore on, the town was beginning to realize its position as a major wheat shipping point in the Big Bend Country and it continued to grow.

The town's enormous amount of wheat production proved very lucrative, and the town continued to grow.

Following the Panic of 1893 and the bankruptcy of the town site owner, Creston remained dormant until a bumper wheat crop in 1897 gave a boost to the regional economy, bringing thousands of new settlers to the region.

Wilbur was brought out of the hard times of the 1890s during a record wheat harvest in 1897 which brought over $ 1, 000, 000 to circulation in the town.

See this link: On July 31, 2012, more crop circles appeared in wheat fields in the town.

Magdalena, Sonora, became a supply center for Tubac, wheat from nearby Cucurpe fed the troops at Fort Buchanan, and the town of Santa Cruz sustained the Mowry mines, just miles to the north.

Farnham became a successful market town ; the author Daniel Defoe wrote that Farnham had the greatest corn-market after London, and describes 1, 100 fully laden wagons delivering wheat to the town on market day.

During the seventeenth century, other new industries evolved: greenware pottery ( a pottery, dating from 1873, still exists on the outskirts of the town ), wool and cloth, the processing of wheat into flour, and eventually hops, a key ingredient of beer.

I have agreed to grant each 50 acres of land, a servant, a cow, four bushels ( 141 litres ) of wheat, an allotment in the new town, and to receive into the King's Store at Bathurst all the Wheat they can grow for the first 12 months.

A roller flour mill, later known as the Premier Flour Mill, was constructed close to the centre of the town in 1891 by brothers, Frederick Henry Piesse and Charles Austin Piesse ; this in turn encouraged the local farmers to grow wheat which was at the heart of the town's early economic success.