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.

In 1849, Avery opened a store at the site, platted the land, and surveyed a town site on his land claim, naming the community Marysville.

A bridge was built over the Broken River in 1847 and the following year the town was surveyed.

In 1800, the town site was first surveyed and plotted, but it was not incorporated as a village until 1811.

The town itself was surveyed in 1870 and by 1881 it was gazetted as a municipality.

In the spring of 1788, Samuel Wright had the area surveyed and formally laid out the town into 160 building lots, which were distributed by lottery at 15 shillings per ticket.

There are no parishes or villages in Grant County, and while the term “ town ” is often used locally to describe one of the incorporated cities, surveyed townships have nothing to do with political divisions or organization in Oregon.

Thomson surveyed the place as a town in 1859, and the Otago Provincial government declared " hundreds " there on 30 November 1860.

The original town site of Parker was surveyed and laid out in 1909 by a railroad location engineer by the name of Earl.

As soon as the proposed Peoria town site was surveyed a hand-dug water well was sunk in 1889 on the public right-of-way at the intersection of Grand Avenue and Washington Street.

The city of Kingman was named for Lewis Kingman, who surveyed along the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad's right-of-way between Needles, Calif., and Albuquerque, N. M. Lewis Kingman supervised the building of the railroad from Winslow, Ariz. to Beale's Springs, which is near the present location of the town of Kingman.

The area was surveyed, and a town plat of was divided into 84 squares.

He deeded land to the railroad, surveyed business lots including hotels, mills, and blacksmith shops around the town where the railroad ran by the 1847 train depot.

The town site was surveyed and platted by William J. Hankins.

In 1854, the town was surveyed by Claiborn Barrow, surveyor for the county.

The town does have at least one official and verified link to Abe Lincoln as he surveyed the site which would become the town during his early days surveying in Logan County.

A town had been surveyed and laid off in 1856 by Maeys, and called Maeysville.

The town of Hazleton was surveyed and platted by Lucius French in 1806.

Cornelius persuaded the builders of the Southern Railway ( US ) to move the planned route for their line through the area from its original surveyed path north of the present day State Highway 64 to its present path through the town of Crandall.

As the O & M railroad was surveyed, the owners of the land arranged for one of the surveyors, Ormsby McKnight Mitchel ( 1810 – 1862 ), a West Point graduate and professor at the University of Cincinnati, to plat their new town in exchange for naming it for him.

Pleasantville was surveyed and established as a town on August 1, 1849 on land then owned by William Wesley Jordan.

These improvements were on portions of the farms owned by two men and their farms were to be surveyed and divided into town lots.

The first building erected after the town was surveyed was a dwelling completed early in June, 1859, by J. F.

In 1871, The National Land Company surveyed and planned the first town there, naming it Bosland in the hopes of attracting the cattle trade.

After the land was surveyed into a new town site, the town began the move.