The southern part of Accrington, the township of New Accrington, was formerly in the Forest of Blackburnshire and the presence of oak trees may be inferred from local place names like Broad Oak and Oak Hill.

To make up for a lack of hard currency, Thailand's township, Amphoe Kut Chum, once issued its own local scrip called Bia Kut Chum: Bia is Thai for cowry shell, was once Baht, and is still current in metaphorical expressions.

Deng was born into an ethnically Hakka Han family in Paifang village ( 牌坊村 ), Xiexing township ( 协兴镇 ), Guang ' an County in Sichuan province, approximately 160 km from Chongqing ( formerly spelled Chungking ).

The township of Lytton, Quebec ( today part of Montcerf-Lytton ) was named after him.

The Burra Creek ( also known as the Worlds End Creek ), which flows through Burra township, was once part of the ancient Murray River system.

Records from the 9th century show that there was a settlement named " Ulidi " on the site, although Oelde only received township in the year 1800.

It was officially awarded township status in 1742, and it is still the major town for the region.

The medieval township on Veøya, an island outside present day Molde, was first mentioned by the historian Snorri Sturluson as the location of the Battle of Sekken in 1162, where king Håkon the Broad-shouldered was killed fighting the aristocrat Erling Skakke, during the Norwegian civil wars.

However the township name was used in a massive new park: Dalton Digby Wildlands Provincial Park, itself renamed since 2002.

In 2010, a detailed field study was conducted in the Garonne River ( France ) in the Arcins channel between Arcins Island and the right bank close to Lastrene township.

Most shires were visited by a group of royal officers ( legati ), who held a public inquiry, probably in the great assembly known as the shire court, which was attended by representatives of every township as well as of the local lords.

The township was established in the early 1860s, the first Post Office opening on 1 January 1861.

Plainfield was originally formed as a township on April 5, 1847, from portions of Westfield Township, while the area was still part of Essex County.

The city and township coexisted until March 6, 1878, when Plainfield Township was dissolved and parts were absorbed by Plainfield city, with the remainder becoming Fanwood Township ( now known as Scotch Plains ).

In 1796, Poland Township was the first charted township in the Connecticut Western Reserve.

The township was founded by Jonathan Fowler, who fell in love with Yellow Creek which flows through Poland.

Bundaberg as a European township was founded by timbergetters Bob and George Stewart in 1867.

In 1816, the new township was named after Waterloo, Belgium, the site of the Battle of Waterloo, which had ended the Napoleonic Wars in Europe.

Previously the township was known as Rai-Bhoi-Di-Talwandi and was renamed after the birth of Nanak Dev.

One resident of a township told Human Rights Watch that it was like living in a " low-class motel ".

In Zimbabwe the term township was used for segregated parts of suburban areas.

As of the 2010 United States Census, the township population was 22, 625.

From 1967 the Israeli government started a program of urbanisation with the construction of the first bedouin township, tel as Sabi.

Barbara Brande was the first woman elected to the Township Committee and the first woman mayor of the township.

: Beginning at the northeast corner of the county of Clermont, running thence west with the line of said county to the Little Miami ; thence up the same with the meanders thereof to the north boundary of the first tier of sections in the second entire range of townships in the Miami Purchase ; thence west to the northeast corner of Section No. 7 in the third township of the aforesaid range ; thence north to the Great Miami ; thence up the same to the middle of the fifth range of townships ; thence east to the County line ; thence with same south to the place of beginning.

The first town laid out in the county was North Liberty, established by Lucas Sullivant in 1797, but the first settlement in the county was made in present-day Jerome township by Joshua and James Ewing in 1798.

The organization of Bath Township predates that of Allen County itself, with its first township meeting held on March 2, 1829.

The organization of Bath Township predates that of Allen County itself, with its first township meeting held on March 2, 1829.

Kirkwood, Missouri ( which claims to be the first planned suburb in St. Louis County and first suburb built west of the Mississippi River ) and Florissant, Missouri ( then in an area known as St. Ferdinand township ).

On April 5, 1858 the first township elections were held and Jesse Shaw was elected supervisor of Leonard Township and Jesse A. Barker was elected supervisor of Green Township.

The next year ( 1869 ) occurred the first election for the township, now the county of McPherson.

Conestoga wagons are named for the township, but it cannot be proven that the first such wagons were built in the township.

In the 1840s early settlers including the Geeves family founded the township of Geeveston, and laid the first track to the Hartz Mountains.

In 1909 Owen Flynn built the first house in the township and set up a new real estate firm called Flynn-Roth.

Justus Henkle was the first settler in the township, and he came to the area in 1818.

Most of the first land claims for that area was $ 1. 25 an acre in the south end of the township, because it was wooded instead of prairie land.

It was not until 1897 the first high school of the township was built in Cartersburg.

The first township election was held in 1857 with the following officers: Ephraim Cox, Asa Cohoe and John Morgan, trustees ; Myron Whitney, clerk ; L. Mayo, C. M.

The first township officers were N. B.

Although technically not a township at the time, Soldier's first recorded death occurred with the passing of Mrs. Tamsa M. Cline in May 1857 which was followed by the first birth ; that of David Rancier in the fall of that year.

The town was named for Chauncey Rose, a pioneer who settled in this township in 1819.

Captain Matthew Ketchum, Colonel William Bullock, and Nicholas Clark are credited with having originally settled the eventual township in 1769, and the latter ultimately became Clarksburg's namesake.

The lower township of Housatonic ( as Outhotonnook would be corrupted ) was first settled by Matthew Noble of Westfield, who arrived in 1725.

* Leer is an unincorporated community near the northern boundary of the township at The rural settlement was named after Lier, Norway, by the Norwegian immigrants who settled here.

In the fall of 1837, Dr. Morgan Enos moved from Bainbridge Township and settled at a point that became known as " Shanghai Corners ", because, according to local history, Dr. Enos was the first to bring Shanghai chickens into the township.

* Cook's Prairie in the northeastern part of the township and extending into southwest Eckford Township was one of the earliest areas to be settled in the township.

Peter Truitt, from Slatter Neck, Sussex County, Delaware, settled on near the center of the township in 1831.

* Dover is a mostly historical settlement in the northeast part of the township at The first settlers in Clare County, the family of William Crawford, settled near Dover in 1866.

Originally settled by Chippewa Indians, the township took its name — French for " Great white "— from French traders who arrived before 1800.

The Long Lake township area was initially settled in 1862 when Ira Chase and his brother-in-law Eliphalet Fillmore traveled from Whitewater township to Grand Traverse County to select land.

Alaiedon Center from which the township got its name was settled in 1836 by James Phillips.

A significant number of German immigrants settled in the southern portion of the township, centered around section 33.

* Brinton is an unincorporated community near the center of the township at It was settled in 1862 and first known as " Letson " after storekeeper Samuel A. Letson, who was also the first postmaster when the post office was established on April 20, 1886.

H. H. Comstock, Caleb Eldred, and Cryus Lovell settled in the western part of the township near what became Comstock.

The pioneers of the township had settled near the center of the township, and that small community became known as Courtland Center.

The Sparta area was first settled in 1844, with the township formally organized in 1846.

Both the community and township were named after Salmon P. Chase, the Chief Justice of the United States at the time the area was being settled in the 1860s.

Subsequently, settlers from New Jersey and New York began to settle the township until by 1834 all sections of land in the southern half of the township was settled.

German-born Frederick Charles Koch settled here in 1849, and the township was named for him when organized in 1856.

Mendon township was settled in 1831.

* Dover is a mostly historical settlement on the Huron River in the northeast part of the township at Also known as Dover Mills, it was settled in 1833 and given a post office named Bass Lake on August 30, 1849, with Mises Y.