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.

Formerly, the Log Cabin Association Consolidated School served the township, but it closed when Smokey Mountain Elementary opened in 1980.

Additional iron mines were opened, mostly in the Western end of the township, although historian Diana Muir dismisses them as " scarcely big enough to notice ," with the further disadvantage of not being near a river large enough to ship iron to market at a reasonable cost.

The settlement became known as Dicksonsonville, though when a post office was opened in June 1838, it was named " Otisco ", after the township.

* Sylvester is in the north central part of the township by the junction of 85th Avenue and 5 Mile Road, approximately east of Altona and west of Halls Corner at David Fowler opened the first store in Hinton Township here in 1868.

During the early development of the township, all high school students attended Levittown High School, grades 9-12, until John F. Kennedy High School was opened in 1965.

Samuel Steel built a sawmill at Jenner Crossroads in 1817 ; John Shopwood opened a hotel in 1825, and Samuel Elder opened the first store in 1836 Other early industry in the township included a sawmill on Quemahoning Creek built about 1813 by Moses Fream and a small woolen mill, built in 1817 by William Dalley, enlarged by Owen and William Morgan later into a small settlement known as Morgantown.

The Dundas Street bridge opened in 1816, making the township more accessible.

The 105. 21 acre Otken Farm property on Route 130 between Adams Lane and Renaissance Boulevard was purchased by the township to be converted into North Brunswick Community Park, which opened in April 2007.

The Liverpool and Southport line of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, opened in 1848, with stations at Waterloo and Blundellsands, also passes through the township.

The first licensed inn within the township was opened in 1835, the Highland Laddie.

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Due to the hilly terrain north and south of the township, the railway only opened to the town on 15 December 1945, seventy years after a line to the town was originally planned.

The area now covered by the township was opened for settlement and organized in 1870 into the following geographic ( and sometime municipal ) townships of Watt, Cardwell, Humphrey, Christie, Medora and Wood.

A township developed at Currie and the Post Office opened on 1 June 1892 ( known as King's Island until 1903, King Island until 1917, thereafter Currie ).

The land was opened to small scale farming in 1893 and a small township developed.

The area was first surveyed as the township of Wandin Yallock in 1866, however the town centre moved north ( now known as Wandin North ) when the Lilydale to Warburton railway opened in 1901.

The Langwarrin railway station was opened in 1888 next to the facility ; in the same year a failed attempt was made to sell allotments on a new township of Aldershot adjoining the reserve.

The early township grew around the railway station and a Post Office named Mornington Junction opened on December 1, 1892 ( Baxter from 1918 )

Broadmeadows township and the urban centre began to be moved two kilometres eastwards when the railway line and station were opened in 1872.

On 1 March 1852 an official post office opened in the township.

A township was originally gazetted on Dandenong Road and in 1862 a primary school was opened at the corner of Dandenong Road and Clayton Road, to serve the whole of the Clayton district.

The township was opened for settlement in 1830 and named in honour of Robert Downie, M. P., one of the directors of the Canada Company.