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The town moved closer to the railway, which was convenient because it gave the citizens transportation and a means to ship freight both to Houston and to Fort Worth, the nearest city.
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In late April 1840 Alcott moved to the town of Concord urged by Emerson.
Before the 1988 NFL season, the team moved to Tempe, Arizona, a college town suburb of Phoenix, and played their home games for the next 18 years at Arizona State University's Sun Devil Stadium.
It was originally in the street in front of city hall, but was moved to its present location in front of the town church in 1905 due to increased traffic.
Because of the effects of the Great Depression on the Detroit area, his father moved the family to Boothwyn, Pennsylvania, near the town of Chester, when Bill was seven years old.
In his 20s he attended barber school, got married, and moved first to Roy, New Mexico then returned to Turkey in Hall County ( now considered his home town ) to work as a barber at Hamm's Barber Shop.
It was formerly the county town of Cornwall until the Crown Courts moved to Truro which is also the administrative centre ( before 1835 the county town was Launceston ).
In 1892, the family moved to Abilene, Kansas, which Eisenhower considered as his home town.
He moved into the expansive Diocletian's Palace, a heavily fortified compound located by the small town of Spalatum on the shores of the Adriatic Sea, and near the large provincial administrative center of Salona.
The family moved to the town of Cornwall shortly after his birth.
Allen and his family moved to Burlington in 1787, which was no longer a small frontier settlement but a small town, and much more to Allen's liking than the larger community that Bennington had become.
Hubble's father had in 1909 moved his family from Chicago to Shelbyville, Kentucky, so that the family could live in a small town, ultimately settling in nearby Louisville.
His father moved inland to the town of Mugron with Frédéric following soon after.
When in 1613 the Dutch attacked the Fortres of Solor, the population of this fort, led by the Dominicans, moved to the harbor town of Larantuka, on the eastern coast of Flores.
In 2005, Coleman moved from Los Angeles to Santaquin, a small town south of Salt Lake City, Utah, where he lived for the remainder of his life.
By the end of the Saxon period, the port of Hastings had moved eastward near the present town centre in the Priory Stream valley, whose entrance was protected by the White Rock headland ( since demolished ).
In the 17th century peasants had ties to the market economy, provided much of the capital investment necessary for agricultural growth, and frequently moved from village to village ( or town ).
When Henry was six, the family moved several miles up the Allegheny River to the little town of Sharpsburg.
Originally based on linen, this quickly moved to wool and factories multiplied, driving the growth of the town.
Ten years later, the town was sold and the Harmonists moved westward to the Indiana Territory, where they established the town of Harmony, now called New Harmony, Indiana, and remained there from 1815 to 1825.
Ten years after the move to Indiana the commune moved again, this time returning to western Pennsylvania, and named their third and final town Economy (' Ökonomie ' in German ).
In 1814, the Society sold their first town in Pennsylvania and moved to the Indiana Territory, where they built their second town.
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Its location near the southern tip of Sweden makes it closer to the Italian city of Milan than to the northernmost Swedish town Kiruna.
The town straddles the A4 Bath Road ( it becomes the Great West Road closer to London ) and the Great Western Main Line, west of central London.
A smaller airport is closer to town, at Ogle.
The main campus is situated around from the centre of Stirling, but is much closer to the town of Bridge of Allan.
Lanford was nominally located in Fulton County, but other on-air references over the years suggest the town is in the vicinity of Aurora, Elgin, and DeKalb, which are much closer to Chicago.
Rocky Comfort is located on the eastern edge of McDonald County and would have been much closer to reorganize with the town of Wheaton in Barry County.
The town of LaGrange was platted in 1836 and settled in 1842 as the new county seat, closer to the center of the county.
According to Papyrus Wilbour, another " House of Nephthys of Ramesses-Meriamun " seems to have existed to the north, in the town of Su, closer to the Fayyum region.
As the years have passed, the area has also changed with its ethnic make-up, returning it closer to its original diversity that helped define the town in the 1945-65 period.
The business people of Pekin were naturally very interested to pull the switch yard closer and get the new " railroad people " with steady work and good pay in their town, but ultimately most employees opted to settle close to the yard.
However, with the completion of the Wabash Railroad line one mile north of town in 1856, the community's fortunes improved and led to most of the town relocating closer to the station.
Cheshire's town center is located 10. 5 miles northeast of Pittsfield, 53 miles northwest of Springfield, and 135 miles west-northwest of Boston ( although the town is closer to Hartford and Albany than its own state capital ).
To the south, Monument Mountain peaks on the Great Barrington town line, and Beartown Mountain peaks to the east, closer to the Lee town line.
There is more marshy land in the southeast of town, closer to the Connecticut, and some small ponds between the two.
While most state offices and the regional waste management area are based in Greenfield, the town is actually closer to Northampton, the former seat of Hampshire County.
The volunteer fire department is located closer to the geographic center of town.
The Rose L. MacDonald School, located closer to the geographic center of the town, serves first, second and third grade students.
This was a win-win solution, as the town was freed from disturbances and the coffee shops are now even closer to the expressways.
To the east, the village of Stewartstown Hollow is closer to the geographic center of the town, along New Hampshire Route 145.
Notable villages in the town include Candia proper, near the town's northern border ; Candia Four Corners, closer to the geographic center of the town ; and East Candia, near the town's eastern border.
* Grout Mill – A hamlet about one mile west of Scott village and closer to the west town line.
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