According to popular legend, his raiders gained access to the walled town with the aid of a local woman who sympathised with the rebellion, letting a small party in via the Market Street gate at midnight.

The town gained more influence and grew considerably.

At this time, the community of Barcelonnette successfully purchased the seigneurie of the town as it was put to auction by the Duke of Savoy ; it thereby gained its own justicial powers.

Over time, the town of Delphi gained more control of itself and the council lost much of its influence.

Initially dubbed Living Pictures Theatre, it gained much popularity and by the end of the next decade there were cinemas in almost every major town of Poland.

She organized and collaborated with civil rights leaders, including Edgar Nixon, president of the local chapter of the NAACP ; and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a new minister in town who gained national prominence in the civil rights movement.

She gained critical acclaim for her performances in The Object of My Affection ( 1998 ), a comedy-drama about a woman who falls for a gay man ( played by Paul Rudd ), and in the low-budget 2002 film The Good Girl, playing an unglamorous cashier in a small town.

Molde Cathedral ( orange roof on far right ) with its freestanding bell tower replaces the church that was destroyed during World War II The town gained formal trading rights in 1614.

When the Nazis gained power over the town his name was on a list of local gay men ordered to the police station.

In 1920 Kauniainen became a market town and gained complete municipal sovereignty.

In the 19th century it was the second most important town in what was to become the future Italy for the production of leather, and in 1848 the Sassarese entrepreneur Giovanni Antonio Sanna gained control of the mine at Montevecchio, becoming the third richest man in the new Kingdom of Italia.

The town gained representation in the English Parliament at the same time, and its priory was dissolved.

Monmouth had a mayor and burgesses in mediaeval times, and the town gained its first charter, from Henry VI, in 1447.

It gained its town charter in 1345.

They later proceeded by ship to Scotland, where Margaret gained troops and other aid for the Lancastrian cause from the Queen and Regent, Mary of Guelders, in return for the surrender of the town and castle of Berwick upon Tweed.

The little town gained national attention three times in a 10-month span early in the 21st century as a result of events which occurred within a mere quarter-mile radius.

The ostrog gained official town rights from the government in 1686.

The name was changed to Verkhneudinsk, literally " Upper Udinsk " (), in 1783 to differentiate it from Nizhneudinsk (" Lower Udinsk ") lying on a different Uda River near Irkutsk which gained town status that year.

Matera has gained international fame for its ancient town, the " Sassi di Matera " ( meaning " stones of Matera ").

The town gained the status of a diocese in 1122, and the priory became Carlisle Cathedral.

Watching the crowds cheering him standing on the balcony of the town hall of Leyden he remarked to the burgomaster: " Now they praise me because I gained riches without the least danger ; but earlier when I risked my life in full combat they didn't even know I existed ...".

During this era some of the most renowned city managers of Tampere were Erkki Napoleon Lindfors ( who was responsible for many ambitious construction projects such as the Näsinneula tower and the construction of the suburb of Hervanta, Tampere's " daughter town "), Pekka Paavola ( who gained some notoriety in corruption scandals ) and Jarmo Rantanen.

In a second conquest Uri, Schwyz and Nidwalden gained the town of Bellinzona and the Riviera in 1500.

Bath gained a reputation as a somewhat wild town where eating, drinking, dancing, and gambling on the daily horse races were the order of the day.

In the years just prior to the Civil War, the town gained a reputation as a summer resort for many Lowcountry planters trying to escape the malarial swamps of the Lowcountry for the moderate climate to be found in the Upstate.

The town served as a supply depot during the period, and it included a post office, a depot, a blacksmith shop and stable, a couple of general stores, two saloons, a school, a Methodist church, and about a dozen houses.

" According to Dhanis ' medical officer, Captain Hinde, their town of Ngandu had " at least 2, 000 polished human skulls " as a " solid white pavement in front " of its gates, with human skulls crowning every post of the stockade.

* 1992 – Nagorno-Karabakh War: Khojaly Massacre: Armenian armed forces open fire on Azeri civilians at a military post outside the town of Khojaly leaving hundreds dead.

During the prosperity of the 1960s, Fairmount enjoyed a time of building with a new town hall, water works, post office and elementary school.

His first ecclesiastical post was the pastorate of the town of Glarus, where he stayed for ten years.

By 1910, the town had a hotel which also operated as a post office.

There are parks throughout the town as well as a fire department, post office, schools, a hospital, and a golf course.

During the times of the mass migration of Italians mainly post World War II, many Molfettese residents migrated to a town in Australia called Port Pirie.

Garrett Park is primarily a residential town, with a post office, and a few small businesses.

The town is unusual in that residents prefer picking up their mail at the post office in person, rather than having home delivery.

Steinway Village was built as its own town, and included a new factory ( still used today ) with its own foundries, post office, parks and housing for employees.

Any mail sent without a town name ends up in the Castries post office.

Founded as a customs post with its twin city Albury on the other side of the Murray River, the town grew subsequent to the opening of the first bridge across the Murray in 1860.

The town of Erfurt was the easternmost trading post in Frankish territory at the time.

The French dismissed Nhu from his high-ranking post, due to Diệm's nationalist activities, and he moved to the central highlands resort town of Đà Lạt and lived comfortably, editing a newspaper.

The first post office of record at Lexington was on the Loretto Road, north of town, in 1880.

It forms a post town in the TW postcode area.

Although the priory was dissolved in 1539 the town remained an important staging post on the Bath Road.

The town was laid out in 1790, and its post office was opened on September 1, 1870.

Until the establishment of Greater Sochi in 1961, it was administered as a separate town, which had its origin in an ancient Sadz village and a medieval Genoese trading post.

It chronicles the rise, after the end of the Civil War, of the small frontier post of Dodge City, Kansas to civilized and respectable town and trading place for cattle.

Other villages and hamlets within the Holmfirth post town include :- Brockholes, Fulstone, Jackson Bridge, Hepworth, Holme, Holmbridge, Honley, Meltham, Netherthong, New Mill, Scholes, Totties, Underbank and Wooldale.

In 1856, when the town was working to establish a post office, the United States Postal Service refused their first application as there was already a Santa Fe established with the USPS.

The town has the world's only post office to bear the name of Santa Claus.

In January 1856 the town applied for a post office to be installed.