Zion was surprised when Roy's buggy stopped beside her on the pike one early summer day as she was walking home from the country school where she was teaching now that Eph Showers had had a call to preach in some mountain town.

* 1813 – At the final stage of the Peninsular War, British-Portuguese troops capture the town of Donostia ( now San Sebastián ), resulting in a rampage and eventual destruction of the town.

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 White Elephant-Afyon is twinned with the town of Hamm in Germany, and now has a large statue of Hamm's symbolic white elephant.

) was an ancient seaport town on the south coast of Spain, between Malaca ( now Málaga ) and Carthago Nova ( now Cartagena ), in the district inhabited by the Bastuli.

To the west of Alcobaça is the well-known former fishing village of Nazaré, now a town.

Today, the village is now a small town and a popular holiday resort with most of its past and traditions having rapidly evaporated in the course of time.

The town we now call Accrington covers two townships which were established in 1507 following disafforestation ; those of Old Accrington and New Accrington which were merged in 1878 with the incorporation of the borough council.

During the 1st century AD, the Army then chose a site to the north of the emerging town in what is now the section of Bonn-Castell to build a large military installation dubbed Castra Bonnensis, i. e., literally, " Fort Bonn ".

Bart now has twenty-four hours to come up with a " brilliant plan to save our town ".

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

Town after town now succumbed to the Allies.

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 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.

The first elected trustees of the town were the slate of Denis Kearney's Workingman's Party, who were particularly favored in the working class area of the former Ocean View, now called " West Berkeley.

Still now, many quarters of Istanbul, like Aksaray, Çarşamba, and others get their names from the town of provenience of an group.

* Canton, Montana, a former town now situated under Canyon Ferry Lake

The fort was built by Royalist occupation forces in c. 1643 to the south east of the town, with a similar fort at Mount Ridley on the opposite slopes of what is now Kingswear.

Before this, what is now the town centre was almost entirely tidal mud flats.

No railway has ever run to Dartmouth, but the town does have a railway station, although it is now a restaurant.

Bidder served on the town council, and his expertise was instrumental in draining the area which is now the centre of the town, but was then part of the River Dart.

:" Birka is the main Geatish town ( oppidum Gothorum ), situated in the middle of Sweden ( Suevoniae ), not far ( non longe ) from the temple called Uppsala ( Ubsola ) which the Swedes ( Sueones ) held in the highest esteem when it comes to the worship of the gods ; here forms an inlet of the Baltic or the Barbaric Sea a port facing north which welcomes all the wild peoples all around this sea but which is risky for those who are careless or ignorant of such places ... they have therefore blocked this inlet of the troubled sea with hidden masses of rocks along more than 100 stadions ( 18 km ).

A giant Viking welcomes visitors to the town of Dannevirke in New Zealand, founded by 19th Century Scandinavian settlers.

Through the years Lockport has managed to retain its small town quality-a quality that welcomes visitors who travel along Bayou Lafourche, the longest street in the world

Chalfont welcomes members of all religious beliefs but the churches of the town represent only the Christian faith.

The Frackville Museum welcomes the donation of any items relevant to the town, such as small collectibles, local school memorabilia, Frackville souvenirs, or business items from years gone by.

This was mocked in the episode " Doc Small ", in which she welcomes Dr. Chris Garner, a doctor from an even smaller town than Dog River, to town, and Garner is shocked by Lacey's " slutty " top, which is actually one of her more conservative tops.

During the Watercress Festival, the town welcomes visitors and opens a number of attractions and places of interest.

In those days, a billboard greeted people driving into town on U. S. 70 with the words ' The KKKK welcomes you to Smithfield '"</ ref >< ref > Sims, Patsy.

Remembering him, he welcomes the player to town and his shop.

To the south is the city of Caldas da Rainha and the quaint medieval town of Óbidos that is an attraction for any tourists that enjoys a true glimpse of the past.

To the south is Caldas da Rainha and the quaint medieval town of Óbidos that is an attraction for any tourists that enjoys a true glimpse of the past.

The Old Medina ( the part of town pre-dating the French protectorate ) attracts fewer tourists than the medinas of cities like Fes and Marrakech.

Poles also arrived as the city became popular seaside resort and spa town among tourists from all over Germany with an amount of about 5-8 percent of Poles.

The town is popular with tourists for shopping and recreation, and has a large growing international student population.

On 27 November 2003, the Dutch Justice Minister Piet Hein Donner announced that his government was considering rules under which coffeeshops would only be allowed to sell soft drugs to Dutch residents in order to satisfy both European neighbors ' concerns about the influx of drugs from the Netherlands, as well as those of Netherlands border town residents unhappy with the influx of " drug tourists " from elsewhere in Europe.

Her father, Richard, was a cabinetmaker who supplemented his income by mining the coastal cliff-side fossil beds near the town, and selling his finds to tourists.

The beginnings of the Bobsleigh were humble, starting when English tourists were enticed to stay over the winter in the mineral spa town of St. Moritz, Switzerland by the successful marketing of hotelier Caspar Badrutt.

The panoramic view of some 222 partly snow-clad peaks, often called the Molde panorama, is famous, having been one of the attractions drawing tourists to the town in the 19th century.

Canyon tourists and residents of Supai, a town located in the bottom of the canyon, were evacuated from the Supai area on August 17 – 18, 2008 due to a break in the earthen Redlands Dam, located upstream of Supai, after a night of heavy rainfall.

Oak Bluffs enjoys a reputation as one of the more active night-life towns on the island for both residents and tourists, and is also a " wet " town.

The town is located towards the eastern side of the park and offers accommodation to the many tourists who visit the area.

The many historical and spiritual sites around the lake, especially its main town Tiberias, are visited by millions of local and foreign tourists annually.

The town is connected to the rest of India by road and rail, and its historic sites and natural beauty attract tourists.

The railway brought new prosperity to Falmouth, as it made it easy for tourists to reach the town.

It was a poor part of town, but since extensive renovation in the 1990s it has become popular with tourists and students as a pretty area with a high concentration of cafés, restaurants and night clubs.

Paradise, like Intercourse, is a popular site in Pennsylvania Dutch Country for tourists who like the name of the town ; they are together often named in lists of " delightfully-named towns " in Pennsylvania Dutchland, along with Blue Ball, Lititz, Intercourse, Bareville, Bird-in-Hand, and Mount Joy .< ref > Mencken ( 1963 ) p. 653 quote: It was the setting of the 1994 comedy film Trapped in Paradise.

In particular, tourists flock to Minocqua, a town of nearly 5, 000 people with a summer population around 15, 000.

The town also hosts the Italian gold reserves, an important Academy of Fine Arts, and the University of Tuscia, and is located in a wide thermal area, attracting many tourists from the whole of central Italy.

His election to the presidency in 1976 brought the small town considerable attention from journalists and tourists, which it continues to receive as the former president and his wife, and much of their family, still make Plains their home.

The wall mural and replica pillory in the town centre are popular attractions for visiting tourists.

He persuaded a group of like-minded investors to fund the construction of a railway line from King's Lynn to the town: the railway would bring tourists and visitors to Hunstanton.

While still an entertaining town with an enjoyable atmosphere, locals and tourists alike would agree that it has lost its " anything goes " mentality which it had once acquired, a mindset that was dangerous to tourists, locals, and the tourism industry as a whole.

During the Socialist era the government tried to turn Sopron into an industrial city, but much of the medieval town center remains, allowing the city to remain an attractive site for tourists.