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The town was developed in the 1950s and established in 1958 primarily by M. Penn Phillips and the Holly Sugar Corporation as a resort community on the Salton Sea, a saline, endorheic rift lake located directly on the San Andreas Fault, yet very little development was achieved due to its isolation and lack of local employment opportunities.
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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.
town and developed
However, two large Confederate corps assaulted them from the northwest and north, collapsing the hastily developed Union lines, sending the defenders retreating through the streets of town to the hills just to the south.
As a direct result of this conflict Enniskillen developed not only as a market town but also as a garrison, which became home to two regiments.
Although the surface is uneven, the town developed into an agricultural community.
Despite the attacks, the Harmonists developed Economy into a prosperous factory town, engaged in farming on a large scale, and maintained a brewery, distillery, and wine-making operation.
For many years, Kinglassie was a weaving village but in the 19th and 20th centuries it developed as a mining town.
Around this fort a town gradually developed, which became the centre of a small but important state of great strategic value to France, Germany and the Netherlands.
In the decades that followed, the town developed under the castle ’ s protection.
The university was designed in the Brutalist style and developed by the renowned town planner Walter Abraham who also oversaw the next 20 years of planning and development for the university.
The Bend subsequently developed a service-based economy to support the shipyard and gradually began to acquire all the amenities of a growing town.
Very elaborate and complex schemes for town defences were developed in the Netherland and France but these belong mainly to the post-medieval periods.
This was not an issue in an era where the major highways became Main Street in every town along the way and inexpensive land at the edge of town could be developed with motels, car lots, filling stations, lumber yards, amusement parks, roadside diners, drive-in restaurants and theatres and countless other small roadside businesses.
Suburban settlements developed around the city walls, on the river islands and on the right bank, with some ( Ostrów Tumski, Śródka, Chwaliszewo, Ostrówek ) obtaining their own town charters.
Once siege guns were developed the techniques for assaulting a town or a fortress became well known and ritualized.
The town also had a highly developed drainage system and, judging from the fine artwork, its citizens were clearly sophisticated and relatively wealthy people.
The oldest organised indigenous group in Trinidad and Tobago is the Santa Rosa Carib Community centred in the town of Arima, although several new groups have developed in recent years.
The center of the town has kept its very bourgeois atmosphere, while more middle-class neighborhoods have developed around the train stations and in the outskirts of the city.
His interest in trains also developed in Marceline, a town that owed its existence to the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway which ran through it.
The town developed beneath the castle, which the Count of Gruyere had built on top of the hill, to control the upper Saanen valley.
The town developed separately of the castle.
In the 11th century the Castle of the Alhambra was developed as a walled town which became a military stronghold that dominated the whole city.
Winchester developed from the Roman town of Venta Belgarum, which developed from an Iron Age oppidum.
Municipal greenery ( 560 ha, 6. 5 % of the town area ) developed in the form of numerous parks, green spots and three cemeteries over a century-old.
Monmouth developed primarily as a market town, and agricultural centre, rather than as a centre of industry.
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