The Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway built a 66-mile branch to What Cheer via Keswick in 1879 The town is named for Keswick, England, the home town of a local woman who had offered lodging to the track-laying crew.

His first known victim, 70-year-old Eva Lyons, lived at Keswick Close in the town.

The lake occupies part of Borrowdale and lies immediately south of the town of Keswick.

The town of Georgina lies along the entire south shore of Lake Simcoe and consists smaller residential towns and communities, including Keswick on Cook's Bay, Sutton, Jackson's Point, Pefferlaw, and Udora.

It follows the A1 ( M ) south to Scotch Corner from where it continues west across the Pennines, past Brough, Appleby, Kirkby Thore, Temple Sowerby, Penrith, Keswick and Cockermouth, and on through the northern reaches of the Lake District, before arriving at the coastal town of Workington.

Keswick ( ) is a market town and civil parish within the Borough of Allerdale in Cumbria, England.

The town is administered by Keswick Town Council and Allerdale Borough Council.

The Keswick Convention is a Christian convention that has met annually in the town since 1875.

In May the town hosts the annual Keswick Mountain Festival.

The town used to be linked to Cockermouth and Penrith via the Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway which closed in 1972.

There is a cycleway which runs along the former Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway route, and spans a high bridge over the Cocker affording views of the town and river-scape.

The Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway served the town.

The route subsequently follows the River Derwent before reaching Derwent Water where it follows the shoreline path to reach the town of Keswick.

It lies just north of the town of Keswick, Cumbria, and dominates the skyline in this part of the northern lakes.

In his adopted home of Keswick, a section of the town museum was dedicated to Walpole's memory in 1949, with manuscripts, correspondence, paintings and sculpture from Brackenburn, donated by his sister and brother.

The lake lies at the foot of Skiddaw, near the town of Keswick.

The town of Keswick is the largest area that the bay has access to.

Skiddaw Little Man also called Little Man is a fell in the English Lake District, it is situated four kilometres north of the town of Keswick and reaches a height of 865 m ( 2, 837 ft ).

It is situated on the western shore of Derwent Water within of the busy tourist town of Keswick.

The Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway ( CK & PR ) was incorporated by Act of Parliament on 1 August 1861, for a line connecting the town of Cockermouth with the London and North Western Railway ( LNWR ) West Coast Main Line at Penrith.

It is situated in the Newlands Valley, 5 km south west of the town of Keswick.

He said to the Secretary, `` I understand you came from a little Pennsylvania town near Wilkes-Barre.

They had cleaned up an old ice box and begun to buy fifty-pound blocks of ice in town, as the electric refrigerator came nowhere near providing enough ice for the crowds who ate and drank there.

Radio broadcasts had not begun and most devotees of baseball attended the games near home, in the town park or a pasture, with perhaps two or three trips to the city each season to see the Cubs or the Pirates or the Indians or the Red Sox.

He was worshipped as Acraephius ( ; Ἀκραιφιος, Akraiphios, literally " Acraephian ") or Acraephiaeus ( ; Ἀκραιφιαίος, Akraiphiaios, literally " Acraephian ") in the Boeotian town of Acraephia ( Ἀκραιφία ), reputedly founded by his son Acraepheus ; and as Smintheus ( ; Σμινθεύς, Smintheus, " Sminthian "— that is, " of the town of Sminthos or Sminthe ") near the Troad town of Hamaxitus.

A brief passage in The Big Four furnishes possible information about Poirot's birth or at least childhood in or near the town of Spa, Belgium: " But we did not go into Spa itself.

* 1998 – An earthquake in Slovenia, measuring 5. 6 on the Richter scale occurs near the town of Bovec.

* 851 – Battle of Jengland: Erispoe defeats Charles the Bald near the Breton town of Jengland.

Armenia's main rail and road border-crossing with Georgia ( at ) is along the Debed river near the Armenian town of Bagratashen and the Georgian town of Sadakhlo.

* 1791 – American troops destroy the Miami town of Kenapacomaqua near the site of present-day Logansport, Indiana in the Northwest Indian War.

The French Revolution ( 1787 – 99 ) that began during his youth was also influential: Ampère ’ s father was called into public service by the new revolutionary government, becoming a justice of the peace in a small town near Lyon.

Some fragmentary walls of large, well-dressed blocks near this latter town indicate the early prosperity of Ambracia.

From here the Aar flows northeast for a long distance, past the ambassador town Solothurn ( below which the Grosse Emme flows in on the right ), Aarburg ( where it is joined by the Wigger ), Olten, Aarau, near which is the junction with the Suhre, and Wildegg, where the Hallwiler Aa falls in on the right.

Intending to take the strategic town of Vesontio, he concentrated his forces on the Rhine near Lake Constance, and when the Suebi arrived, he crossed.

Ancus Marcius marched from Rome with a newly levied army and took the Latin town of Politorium ( situated near the town of Lanuvium ) by storm.

High above the city, near the small town of South Fork, the South Fork Dam was originally built between 1838 and 1853 by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as part of a canal system to be used as a reservoir for a canal basin in Johnstown.

Aster computers was based in the small town of Arkel near the town of Gorinchem.

* 1932 – A chondrite-type meteorite breaks into at least seven pieces and lands near the town of Archie in Cass County, Missouri.

The rationalistic method pursued by the new school of Maimonists ( including Levi ben Abraham ben Chayyim of Villefranche, near the town of Perpignan, and Jacob Anatolio ) especially provoked his indignation ; for the sermons preached and the works published by them seemed to resolve the entire Scriptures into allegory and threatened to undermine the Jewish faith and the observance of the Law and tradition.

Aeclanum ( also spelled Aeculanum ) was an ancient town of Samnium, southern Italy, c. 25 km east-southeast of Beneventum, on the Via Appia ( near the modern Mirabella Eclano ).

Aberfoyle Golf Club was built in 1860 and is located just south of town near the Rob Roy restaurant.