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The town served as the county seat of government from the county's founding in 1844 until a county election in 1878 moved that honor to Grafton, West Virginia.
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as Pike proved himself adept in the political arena, he also became a social lion in the village of Little Rock, where he served as a symbol of the culture that the ladies of the town were striving so eagerly to cultivate.
A month later the General Court served notice to the town of Newbury that the bridge was to be built.
The town is served by Aberdare railway station and Aberdare bus station, opposite each other in the town centre.
The town is served by junction seven of the M65 and is linked from the A680 and the A56 dual carriageway which briefly merge ; linking to the M66 motorway heading towards Manchester.
The town served as a supply depot during the period, and it included a post office, a depot, a blacksmith shop and stable, a couple of general stores, two saloons, a school, a Methodist church, and about a dozen houses.
Bodmin Parkway railway station is served by main line trains and is situated on the Cornish Main Line about 3½ miles ( 5½ km ) south-east from the town centre.
Additionally, from at least the 11th century and continuing for several centuries after that, there were several different circuits in the royal court system, served by itinerant judges who would travel from town to town dispensing the King's justice.
Passenger trains haven't served Carson City since 1948, Greyhound Lines stopped their bus services to the town in 2006 and Amtrak discontinued their connecting thruway bus to Sacramento in 2008.
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.
The city is served by Munich S-Bahn ( S2 ) and Deutsche Bahn via Dachau railway station located in the South of the town.
The town is also served by Dachau Stadt Railway Station which serves the local A line with the rural vicinity.
Joseph Allen died in 1755 ; at the time of his death he was one of the wealthier landowners in the area, ran a successful farm, and had previously served as town selectman.
Montsinéry-Tonnegrande is the only coastal town not to be served by taxi group.
From December 1920 until September 1921, Magritte served in the Belgian infantry in the Flemish town of Beverlo near Leopoldsburg.
The town served as independent Fürstpropstei until the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss in 1803.
The town is served by air transportation via Telluride Regional Airport ( TEX ), the highest altitude commercial airport in the United States.
Around this time, Padua also served as home to St. Anthony, the beloved Saint called simply " il Santo " (" the Saint ") by the inhabitants of the town.
The town is served by Bussleiðin-a network of local buses.
Mafeking briefly served as capital of the pre-independence Bantustan of Bophuthatswana in the 1970s, before the adjoining town of Mmabatho was established as capital.
Although Dewey served as a prosecutor and District Attorney in New York City for many years, his home from 1938 until his death was a large farm, called " Dapplemere ", located near the town of Pawling some north of New York City.
File: Rennes-Portes Mordelaises. jpg | The Mordelles Gates ( Portes mordelaises ), built in 1440, served as the principal entry to the town during the Middle Ages.
The town is served by Monmouth Comprehensive School, on Old Dixton Road, with over 1, 600 pupils.
town and county
The streets of any county town were like this on any sunshiny afternoon in summer ; ;
Not only his parishioners, but the whole town and, ultimately, the whole county were enormously impressed by this object lesson.
* Forfar, the county town and administrative centre
Chapter 28 of the 1535 Act of Henry VIII, which provided that Monmouth, as county town, should return one burgess to Parliament, further stated that other ancient Monmouthshire boroughs were to contribute towards the payment of the member.
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 ).
Cambridge is the county town of Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom.
The county covers an area of 1, 691 km² ( 653 sq ; mi ), with a population of approximately 57, 527, with Enniskillen its county town.
A county town is a county's administrative centre in the United Kingdom or Ireland.
County towns are usually the location of administrative or judicial functions, or established over time as the de facto main town of a county.
The concept of a county town eventually became detached from its original meaning of where the county administration is based ( see County halls below ).
Dartmouth is a town and civil parish in the English county of Devon.
Dedham () is a town in and the county seat of Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States.
The town ( and county ) were named for him.
It is the seat of local government for Fermanagh District Council, and is also the county town of Fermanagh as well as its largest town.
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.
Hastings () is a town and borough in the county of East Sussex on the south coast of England.
The town is located east of the county town of Lewes and south east of London, and has an estimated population of 86, 900.
However, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for 1011 relates that Vikings overran " all Kent, Sussex, Surrey and Haestingas ", indicating the town was still considered a separate ' county ' or province to its neighbours 240 years after Offa's conquest.
town and seat
It is the seat of the Ostalbkreis district, and its largest town, as well as the largest town within the Ostwürttemberg region.
The seat of the municipal council is the island's main town, Rønne.
Uncertain whether he should choose it as a seat of war, as he looked round on his scanty force of soldiers, and remembered with what a serious warning the rashness of Petilius had been punished, he resolved to save the province at the cost of a single town.
Responsible to the governor, town councils known as Cabildo administered local municipalities, the most important of which was Santiago, which was the seat of a Royal Appeals Court () from 1609 until the end of colonial rule.
Chojnów is the administrative seat of the rural gmina called Gmina Chojnów, although the town is not part of its territory and forms a separate urban gmina.
The administrative seat of the municipality is in the largest town, Amfissa.
Towards the end of the 90s, Laurent Kabila created and appointed a Transitional Parliament, with a seat in the buildings of the former Katanga Parliament, in the southern town of Lubumbashi, in a move to unite the country, and to legitimate his regime.
The town is part of the Havant constituency, which has for many years been a safe Conservative seat.
One of the legacies of the guilds, the elevated Windsor Guildhall was originally a meeting place for guilds, as well as magistrates ' seat and town hall.
Prior to 1983, the town was in an eponymous seat of its own.
The seat is in the town of Hultsfred.
Douglas, the largest town on the Isle of Man is its capital and seat of government, where the Government offices and the parliament chambers ( Tynwald ) are located.
The principal town of the island and seat of the municipality is Chios ( town ).
In 1827 the town was raised to a Catholic episcopal seat.
The town was noted for its trade fair in the 17th and 18th centuries, while the seat of the pasha of Thessaly was also transferred there in 1770.
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.
Olivenza ( Spanish ) or Olivença ( Portuguese ) is a town and seat of a municipality, on a disputed section of the border between Portugal and Spain, which is claimed de jure by both countries and administered de facto as part of the Spanish autonomous community of Extremadura.
Across the square is the Pazo de Raxoi ( Raxoi's Palace ), the town hall and seat of the Galician Xunta, and on the right from the cathedral steps is the Hostal dos Reis Católicos, founded in 1492 by the Catholic Monarchs, Isabella of Castille and Ferdinand II of Aragon, as a pilgrims ' hospice ( now a parador ).
Its seat is located in the town of Märsta.
It got its name from the small, but very old, City of Sigtuna, but the seat was placed in the much larger modern town of Märsta.
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