Guthrie was born in Okemah, a small town in Okfuskee County, Oklahoma, the son of Nora Belle ( née Sherman ) and Charles Edward Guthrie.

When a third water tower was built next to the Okemah, Oklahoma set of Hot and Cold towers, the town briefly considered naming it " Running ", but eventually decided to use " Home of Woody Guthrie ".

Named for New York lawyer and railroad capitalist John Stryker, who was the founder of the Michigan Southern Railroad Company, the town was organized on March 30, 1835 by James Guthrie, the first settler in the township and in the county.

Even though it wasn't filmed in Newkirk, but in Guthrie, Oklahoma, the directors took the name from this town.

The town was named after William Coyle, an influential Guthrie business man.

Trains entering town from the East were switched and broken down in Weleetka, and dispatched Northwest for either Oklahoma City, Guthrie or El Reno.

The unincorporated communities of Guthrie and Vernon are located in the town.

* November 26 – Arlo Guthrie is arrested in Great Barrington, Massachusetts for the crime of littering, perpetrated the day before ( Thanksgiving ) in the nearby town of Stockbridge.

In 1828, Guthrie mustered enough support to secure city status for Louisville ; it was the first time a town in Kentucky had achieved city status.

Buddha is an unincorporated town in Guthrie Township, Lawrence County, Indiana.

The East Fork of the White River is a little over a mile south and west of town, while Guthrie Creek is a mile to the north and east.

He persuaded the town council to back it, an enthusiastic committee of local citizens to organize it, and most importantly well-known Shakespearean director Tyrone Guthrie to run things.

Within only months Guthrie became a modern brick and stone town with municipal water, electricity, a mass transit system and underground parking garages for horses and carriages.

The town was about what Wilson expected: one main street with its rows of false-fronted buildings, a water tower, a few warehouses, a single hotel ; ;

Though only a relatively short walk separated it from my own part of town, its character was wholly foreign to me.

The insurance man informed them that he had talked to Crumley who was all right and that he would watch the men's personal effects until they towed the rig back to town.

He went to Key West every fall and winter and was the only man in town who did not know that his title of `` Commodore '' was never used without irony.

The odor here was more powerful than that which surrounded the town aborigines.

In town after town my companion pointed out the Negro school and the White school, and in every instance the former made a better appearance ( it was newer, for one thing ).

First, Wright said, he was choked by the smoke, which fortunately kept him from seeing the dreadful town.

There was only one hitch: the small town of Kehl, on the other side of the Rhine, was still under French jurisdiction.

At this, the students let out a yell, knowing full well the actual frontier was beyond the town of Kehl.

Potemkin's Army of Ekaterinoslav, totaling, it was claimed, 40,000 regular troops and 6,000 irregulars of the Cossack Corps, had invested Islam's principal stronghold on the north shore of the Black Sea, the fortress town of Oczakov, and was preparing to test the Turk by land and sea.

Very soon after his arrival in Little Rock, Pike had joined one of the most influential organizations in town, the Little Rock Debating Society, and it was with this group that he made his debut as an orator, being invited to deliver the annual Fourth of July address the club sponsored every year.

Mr. Banks was always called Banks the Butcher until he left town and the shop passed over to Meltzer the Scholar who then became automatically Meltzer the Butcher.

The `` fruitful course '' of metropolitanization that you recommend is currently practiced by the town of East Greenwich and had its inception long before we learned what it was called.

The doctor, since Scotty was no longer allowed to make his regular trips into town to see him, came often and informally to the house.

At any cost, he must leave the dreary Pennsylvania mining town where his father was a pharmacist.

The backing from the white town was greater and there was little publicity.

The clock you heard strike -- it's really the town clock -- was installed last April by Mrs. Shorter, on her birthday ''.

`` P. J. '' -- as Ludie called the town -- was crowded with summer people who came to the mountains to escape the heat in the big cities.

Before he left town Pat saw to it that I was fixed up with a job.

When he was going to town, nothing was good enough -- he had cursed at Winston once for leaving a fleck of polish on his shoelace.

* 1980-Frobisher Bay designated as a town

In the 1946 with decree Liutenant one ( Umberto II of Savoia ) the new Municipality of Apuania was melted and the province ( for error and / or historical ignorance ) resumptions the denomination does not date from 1859 when it was " Massa and Carrara " but Massa ( name with which it came designated to the city of Massa or Massa of Carrara from 1700 until Kingdom of Italy ( 1860 ), denomination that, in order to distinguish it from the other homonymous cities, the chief town continued till the institution of the unified Municipality of Apuania ) and with same the decree liutenant were placed to Massa.

The town was founded by merchant George W. Wright, who donated of land in February 1844, when the community was also designated the county seat.

In most U. S. counties, one town or city is designated as the county seat, and this is where the government offices are located and where the board of commissioners or supervisors meets.

The town is designated as the county seat for Burke County, North Carolina and is subsequently renamed " Morgantown " and later shortened to become Morganton.

In 1964, the town hosted the fourth Hessentag state festival, it is designated for the 53rd in 2013.

The distinction between a town and a city similarly depends on the approach adopted: a city may strictly be an administrative entity which has been granted that designation by law, but in informal usage, the term is also used to denote an urban locality of a particular size or importance: whereas a medieval city may have possessed as few as 10, 000 inhabitants, today some consider an urban place of fewer than 100, 000 as a town, even though there are many officially designated cities that are very, very much smaller than that.

In Maryland, a locality designated " Village of ..." may be either an incorporated town or a special tax district.

The town of Orwell is officially designated as " dry ".

Nevertheless, Bacup's historic character, culture and festivities have encouraged the town's suburbanisation and redevelopment as a commuter town ; English Heritage has proclaimed Bacup as the best preserved cotton town in England, and its town centre is designated as a conservation area for its special architectural qualities.

English Heritage, a public body responsible for the management and maintenance of England's significant historical architecture and archaeology, has proclaimed Bacup as the best preserved cotton town in England ; the town centre has been designated a Conservation Area of Special Architectural and Historic Interest.

San Juan Capistrano was officially designated by Governor Juan B. Alvarado as a secular Mexican town on July 29, at which time those few who still resided at the Mission were granted sections of land to use as their own.

However, Aomori was not given town status within Higashitsugaru District until April 1, 1889, and was not designated a city until April 1, 1898.

Portions of the town are a historical district that has been designated a National Historic Landmark and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places by the U. S. National Park Service.

As is suggested by the name, Miners ' Mills was once an area of town designated to house Miners and Mill workers.

After being forced to spend a sober night at Moe's Tavern serving as designated driver, Barney left town in Homer Simpson's car to, among other things, give a guest lecture at Villanova ( although, by his own admission, the guest lecture could just have likely occurred on a street corner ).

In December 1854, the legislature designated the small port town of Bayport the county seat.

The town of Wheeler was designated as the county seat in 1908.

The town of Wasco was designated the county seat by the Legislative Assembly although this designation was contested between Wasco and Moro.

Prior to the land opening, Pawnee County was organized as County Q, and the future town of Pawnee, Townsite Number 13, was designated the county seat.