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.

It remained a municipal borough until 1974, when it was merged into the South Hams district, and became a successor parish of Dartmouth with a town council.

It is the successor to the Cold war-era Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls ( COCOM ), and was established on July 12, 1996, in the Dutch town of Wassenaar, near The Hague.

His successor, the Crown Prince and later Margrave, George William, began in 1701 to establish the then independent town of St. Georgen am See ( today, the district of St. Georgen ) with its castle, the so-called Ordensschloss, a town hall, a prison and a small barracks.

The successor civil parish has adopted town status.

Wallingford School is the secondary school in the area, to the north of the town, which is the successor to Wallingford Grammar School, founded 1659.

Currently only the EJ & E and Canadian National ( successor to the Grand Trunk ) railroads travel through the town.

In June 2009 her successor, Myles Spires, filed a $ 15 million dollar lawsuit against the town for malicious prosecution after being cleared of all charges initiated by the town for misuse of town's funds.

The town suffered a fire at the former Asaro's ( its successor Vesta moved to the building across ) in 2007, and a fire at the former inn in 2008.

The name Madbury Parish was first recorded in a 1755 grant made by Colonial Governor Benning Wentworth, with full town privileges granted in 1768 by his successor, Governor John Wentworth.

Ripon is a cathedral city, market town and successor parish in the Borough of Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England, located at the confluence of two streams of the River Ure in the form of the Laver and Skell.

He was a prominent as well as the youngest disciple of Rabbi Dovber of Mezeritch — principal disciple and successor of the Baal Shem Tov, founder of general hasidism — and was appointed Rabbi in the town of Liozna, later Liadi.

From 1854 to 1861 he was an organist at St Paul's Church in his native town and, as successor to John Stainer, in 1872 at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he remained for ten years.

Trinity Methodist Church is the much-expanded successor to older places of Methodist worship in the town ; the community dates back to 1868.

In 1974, at the same time as the creation of successor parishes, the law was changed so that any parish council could pass a resolution to declare its area a " town ", with the council known as a " town council ".

The majority of successor parishes, and a number of other small market towns now have town councils, whose powers are exactly the same as those of parish councils, although their chairmen are entitled to style themselves as " town mayor ".

Manuel I fortified the town, but his successor, Andronikos I, could not hold it, so Niš was seized by the Hungarian king Bela III.

By the turn of the 13th to the 14th century it had obtained the status of a town according to Magdeburg Law by Władysław's son and successor Duke Bolko I.

Frederick's successor as king, Frederick William I of Prussia, rarely stayed at the palace, which depressed the small town of Charlottenburg.

The town lost its status as a municipal borough in 1974, when the Local Government Act 1972 made it a successor parish within the district of West Oxfordshire.

* In the town: Abensberg ( main settlement ), Aunkofen ( civil parish ), Badhaus ( village )

Coal mined in Aberdare parish rose from in 1844 to in 1850, and the coal trade, which after 1875 was the chief support of the town, soon reached huge dimensions.

The town of Peebles in the Scottish Borders holds a traditional week-long " Beltane Fair " every year in June, when a local girl is crowned Beltane Queen on the steps of the parish church.

Bodmin () is a civil parish and major town in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

The extent of the civil parish corresponds fairly closely to that of the town so is mostly urban in character.

Dartmouth is a town and civil parish in the English county of Devon.

Following the Reformation, the Abbey was dissolved in 1539 and the Abbey Church sold to the town in 1553 for £ 400: it became a Protestant parish church for the borough and the Lady Chapel was used as a school.

Hatfield is a town and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England in the borough of Welwyn Hatfield.

The house featured in the image of Kings Head St to the left, is unique in the town and is an example of a sailmaker's house, thought to have been built circa 1600. Notable public buildings, all later, include the parish church of St. Nicholas ( 1821 ) in a restrained Gothic style, with many original furnishings including a ( somewhat altered ) organ of the same date in the west end gallery, and the Guildhall of 1769, the only Grade I listed building in Harwich.

Kesgrave parish council officially adopted the title of a town in January 2000.

The beginning of Polish parish in modern times is connected to him In XIX century Polish population of the town consisted among others of Polish soldiers in Prussian service stationed in the city, salt refining specialists from Ciechocinek, political prisoners in local Prussian and permanent Polish inhabitants In the second half of XIX century the Polish community further increased with arrival of Polish workers During the period 1875-1914 an active Polish community grew and through its funds a Catholic school and the Church of Saint Marcin where masses in Polish were held ( initially throughout the season, after about 1890 all the year ), were established.

It currently has six elected councillors in Cornwall Council and 27 town and parish councillors.

" Oxfordians also consider it significant that the nearest town to the parish of Hackney, where de Vere later lived and was buried, was also named Stratford.

Padstow () is a town, civil parish and fishing port on the north coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

Stow-on-the-Wold is a market town and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England.

The borough of Wernigerode is divided into the town itself, including the villages of Hasserode and Nöschenrode incorporated before 1994 and five villages with their own parish councils that were integrated in 1994: Benzingerode, Minsleben, Reddeber, Schierke and Silstedt.

The town church of Gruyères originally belonged to the parish of Bulle.

Totnes ( or ) is a market town and civil parish at the head of the estuary of the River Dart in Devon, England within the South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

Hereford is a cathedral city, civil parish and county town of Herefordshire, England.

Common names for local government entities include state, province, region, department, county, prefecture, district, city, township, town, borough, parish, municipality, shire and village.

There are three types of local authorities: a borough corporation, town commissions, and parish commissions.

Most civil parishes are in rural areas, but if the parish is a town the parish council may be called a town council.