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The town of Middlesborough, built in the crater, was established in 1886 to exploit iron and coal deposits, although the town's founder, Alexander A. Arthur, apparently did not know of the crater's extraterrestrial origin.
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The remains of the acropolis fortifications are very interesting, including roads and ditches hewn in the rock ; but beyond ruins of two churches, a gatehouse, and a fine keep built by Thoros I There are no notable structures in the upper town.
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.
Aberfoyle Golf Club was built in 1860 and is located just south of town near the Rob Roy restaurant.
The town contains the remains of a medieval stone castle built soon after the Norman conquest of Wales.
The Industrial Revolution, however, resulted in large changes and Accrington ’ s location on the confluence of a number of streams made it attractive to industry and a number of mills were built in the town in the mid-eighteenth century.
Chinese and Vietnamese houses in Cambodian town and villages typically are built directly on the ground and have earthen, cement, or tile floors, depending upon the economic status of the owner.
He spent most of his life in the small town of Auburn, California, living in a small cabin built by his parents, Fanny and Timeus Smith.
Finberg pointed out, however, that a document of 1651 refers to Tavistock's guildhall as Guilehall, so Guilebridge is more likely to be guild bridge, probably because it was built or maintained by one of the town guilds.
Jews were slow to return to the town, but by 1750 the Rabbi Elijah Synagogue was built as the first Jewish synagogue in Casablanca.
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.
The town is also known for its proximity to the infamous Dachau concentration camp built in 1933 by the Nazis, in which tens of thousands of prisoners were murdered.
Captain Cole was installed as Constable and strengthened the castle wall and built a " fair house " on the old foundation as the centrepoint of the county town.
His financial situation improved considerably and in 1897, Munch bought himself a summer house, a small fisherman's cabin built in the late 18th century, in the small town of Åsgårdstrand in Norway.
The victorious Teutonic Knights built a castle at Elbing near, if not on top of, the destroyed Prussian town of Truso.
In 1847 the railway came to Emsworth with the construction of the West Coastway Line, Emsworth railway station was built to serve the town.
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A wall was built ( nowadays known as Charles V Wall ); also a ditch by the wall of the town and a drawbridge at the Landport ( Puerta de Tierra ).
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town and crater
Dubbed the Canyon Diablo crater – from Canyon Diablo, Arizona, the closest community to the crater in the late 19th century, northwest of the crater, but now a ghost town – it had initially been ascribed to the actions of a volcano.
The name Katoomba is used as a name for a crater on the planet Mars, without specifically commemorating the town.
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Harghita's spectacular natural scenery includes Sfânta Ana Lake, a volcanic crater lake near the town of Băile Tuşnad ; Lacul Roşu a mountain lake in the northeast near the town of Gheorgheni, and Cheile Bicazului, a dramatic, narrow canyon formed by the Bicaz stream.
In 1976, the International Astronomical Union's Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature ( IAU / WGPSN ) officially adopted the name Banff for a crater on Mars, after the town in Alberta.
The name Boulia is used as a name for a crater on the planet Mars, without specifically commemorating the town.
The coastal village ( or puerto ) of Chicxulub, 6 km east of the nearest town, Progreso, lies almost exactly on the geographic center of the crater.
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