The churches, the taverns, and the various other places of the town must have known his figure well as he roved to and about them.

It is known that Morse did associate with a group of itinerant horse traders who made their headquarters at Westport, a town not far from Fall River.

G. David Thompson is one of those names known to the stewards of transatlantic jetliners and to doormen in Europe's best hotels, but he is somewhat of an enigma to most people in his own home town of Pittsburgh.

Aachen (, also known as Bad Aachen ) is a spa town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

The charter known as " Alphonsine ," granted to the town of Riom, became the code of public law for Auvergne.

In 1967 the then National Capital Development Commission adopted the " Y Plan " which laid out future urban development in Canberra around a series of central shopping and commercial area known as the ' town centres ' linked by freeways, the layout of which roughly resembled the shape of the letter Y, with Tuggeranong at the base of the Y and Belconnen and Gungahlin located at the ends of the arms of the Y.

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.

* Arene, Elis, an ancient town in Elis, Greece, also known as Makistos, Samia or Samiko

By the 5th century AD, Rome was in decline and the Roman predecessor town of Alicante, known as Lucentum ( Latin ), was more or less under the control of the Visigothic warlord Theudimer.

Abano Terme ( known as Abano Bagni until 1930 ) is a town and comune in the province of Padua, in the Veneto region, Italy, on the eastern slope of the Colli Euganei ; it is 10 kilometers southwest by rail from Padua.

The Bonapartes at the time had a modest four-story home in town ( now a museum known as Casa Buonaparte ) and a rarely used country home in the hills north of the city ( now site of the Arboretum des Milelli ).

The only place in town doing good business is the local sanitarium, known as “ The Cookie Jar ,” whose inmates look much healthier than the disgruntled townspeople.

The 1924 town council elections in Cicero became known as one of the most crooked elections in the Chicago area's long history of rigged elections, with voters threatened by thugs at polling stations.

Recent excavations at the Viking harbor town of Fröjel, Gotland in Sweden have revealed a small number of rock crystal lenses known as the Visby lenses.

In Steel Harbor, a bombed-out wreck of a town, thrill-junkie Barbara Kopetski-better known as " Barb Wire "-is a bar owner and part-time bounty hunter ( in order to pay for her bar, The Hammerhead ).

The earliest known mention of baseball in the United States was a 1791 Pittsfield, Massachusetts, ordinance banning the playing of the game within of the town meeting house.

Being particularly popular in the British garrison town Poona ( now Pune ), the game also came to be known as Poona.

The style known now as bock was a dark, malty, lightly hopped ale first brewed in the 14th century by German brewers in the Hanseatic town of Einbeck.

In the Vivaro-Alpine dialect of Occitan, the town is known as Barcilona de Provença or more rarely Barciloneta according to the classical norm ; under the Mistralian norm it is called Barcilouna de Prouvença or Barcilouneto.

The town was known as Rigomagensium under the Roman Empire and was the capital of a civitas ( a provincial subdivision ), though no Roman money has yet been found in the canton of Barcelonnette.

The town was known as Beit Lachama, meaning " House of Lachama.

Bayonne is known for its fine chocolates, produced in the town for 500 years, and Bayonne ham, a cured ham seasoned with peppers from nearby Espelette.

" Jim Rob ", as he became known, drifted for several years, traveling from town to town to try to earn a living, at one point almost losing his life when he nearly fell from a moving train, and later being chased by railroad police.

Busch and Conrad had visited another town, only south of Pilsen, also known for its breweries: Budweis ( or Böhmisch Budweis, today's České Budějovice ).

Rich in Christian and Moslem art, Istanbul is today a fascinating museum of East and West that recently became a seaside resort as well with the development of new beaches on the Bosphorus and the Sea of Marmara only a short distance from the center of town.

The first Baron was Hamelin de Balun, from Ballon, a small town and castle in Maine-Anjou called " Gateway to Maine ", near Le Mans, today in the Sarthe département of France.

As of late 2005, the area once devoted to a live-action facsimile of Dogpatch ( including a lifesize statue in the town square of Dogpatch " founder ," General Jubilation T. Cornpone ) has been heavily stripped by vandals and souvenir hunters, and is today slowly being reclaimed by the surrounding Arkansas wilderness.

* Bannack, Montana, town named after the tribe, today a ghost town

The made-up embankment which today extends the whole length of the town's riverbank is the result of 19th century land reclamation, started in earnest when the town played host to a large number of prisoners of war from the Napoleonic Wars which formed a captive workforce.

Also in Roman times, some Essenes settled on the Dead Sea's western shore ; Pliny the Elder identifies their location with the words, " on the west side of the Dead Sea, away from the coast ... the town of Engeda " ( Natural History, Bk 5. 73 ); and it is therefore a hugely popular but contested hypothesis today, that same Essenes are identical with the settlers at Qumran and that " the Dead Sea Scrolls " discovered during the 20th century in the nearby caves had been their own library.

In town there are still parts of the Schleißheimer canal remaining today.

The traditional subdivision of Florence into four quarters dates from the 14th century ( that today compose the old town ):

" According to the tradition, Hannibal's oath took place in the town of Peñíscola, today part of the community of Valencia, Spain.

While the settlement today referred to as Hedeby / Haithabu lies on the south side of the Schlei inlet, the settlement that grew up at around the same time on the north side has had a continuous history of habitation to modern times, and has now grown into the town known as Schleswig and given its name to the surrounding province.

* SU-KI-RI-TA: Sugrita, a place name which occurs in Linear B as well ; the town survives today as Sybrita.

The area of today ’ s Rossmarkt (“ Horse Market ”), in which many simple craftsmen lived, was only brought within the fortifications once the second town wall was built.

The word Bodincus appears in the place name Bodincomagus, a Ligurian town on the right bank of the Po downstream from today ’ s Turin.

The location of Grannona is uncertain and was identified by the historians and toponymists at different places, mainly with the town known today as Granville ( nowadays in Normandy ) or nearby.

" Even today, tourist guides in Stockholm spice up their guiding of the old town ( Gamla Stan ) with the news about Christian II's " rehabilitation " back in Denmark.

It was until 1877 a separate town ( Dom zu Reval ), the residence of the aristocracy ; it is today the seat of the Estonian parliament, government and some embassies and residencies.

These churches, whose buildings may still be seen today in many New England town squares, trace their roots to the division of the Puritan colonies into parishes for the administration of their religious needs.

There is little sign of any orchards today, although there is a wide proliferation of fruit trees in the backyards of many residences in this area of town.

The city grew out of the early Slavic settlement of Mis ( s ) ni, named for the small river Mis ( s ) na today Meis ( s ) abach ( see Miesbach / Musbach / Mosbach ), inhabited by the Slavic Glomacze tribe and was founded as a German town by King Henry the Fowler in 929.

The Saxon street plan laid out by Alfred the Great is still evident today: a cross shaped street system which conformed to the standard town planning system of the day – overlaying the pre-existing Roman street plan ( incorporating the ecclesiastical quarter in the south-east ; the judicial quarter in the south-west ; the tradesmen in the north-east ).

With a population of nearly 25, 500, Ramallah was historically a Christian town, but today Muslims form the majority of the population, with a strong Christian minority.

The term chalcedony is derived from the name of the ancient Greek town Chalkedon in Asia Minor, in modern English usually spelled Chalcedon, today the Kadıköy district of Istanbul.

Some of the early orchards, along with remnants of the town and ranches, are still present at Manzanar today.

Myra is an ancient town in Lycia, where the small town of Kale ( Demre ) is situated today in present day Antalya Province of Turkey.