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.

Only one incorporated town is chartered in Pennsylvania.

During High Middle Ages, the town was expanded with additional settlement was founded a few kilometers north of the stronghold in the course of the Ostsiedlung and chartered with Lübeck law.

* The town of Riga is chartered as a city by Bishop Albert, who landed on the site of the town with 1, 500 crusaders earlier that year.

* Kiel, Germany is chartered as a town.

* Romford, London, England is chartered as a market town.

In 1307, the town of Belfort was first chartered by the Counts of Montbéliard.

The town was chartered as a royal burgh by King David in the 12th century, with charters later reaffirmed by later monarchs ( the town then referred to as Strivelyn ).

The town was chartered in 1851, and its main street, Franklin Street, was named in memory of Benjamin Franklin.

The town first called Big Lick was established in 1852 and chartered in 1874.

In 1882 it became the town of Roanoke, and in 1884 it was chartered as the independent city of Roanoke.

The town of Kokkola was chartered in 1620 by king Gustav II Adolf of Sweden, when Finland was a part of the Swedish Empire.

Roger Ludlow ( 1590 – 1664 ), one of the founders of the Colony of Connecticut, helped to purchase and charter the towns of Fairfield ( 1639 ) and Norwalk ( purchased 1640, chartered as a town in 1651 ).

In 1848 the town of Oakland, Mississippi was chartered on the site.

The town of Tillatoba was chartered in 1873.

Named after the historic city of Worcester, England, Worcester was incorporated as a town on June 14, 1722 and chartered as a city on February 29, 1848.

The town was officially incorporated and chartered in 1929.

Douglas was chartered as a town in 1895 and as a city in 1897.

The town was chartered in 1903 with the name " Centralhatchee ".

It was incorporated as a town in 1951, and chartered as a city under Georgia law in 2000.

Donalsonville was first chartered as a town in Georgia on December 8, 1897.

Although it was a railroad town as early as 1847, it was not officially chartered until August 19, 1907.

The town was chartered in 1852, and the first resident was John Miller, who built and lived in a boarding house.