In 1618, he oversaw the building of Castle Balfour, just off the village's main street.

Because all property in the village is private land, the Sea Ranch Lakes Police Department is legally allowed to deny access to residential areas of the village to non-residents through the use of the village's main gate on Gatehouse Rd at A1A.

Although the village's main street has a line of store fronts, Harrietta has no working business, shops, or active buildings besides its 49638 Post Office.

By the summer of 1899, a full array of businesses lined the village's main street.

The village's current main bathhouse originates from this period.

On its main street, Franklin Avenue, many of the village's main eateries, stores, and landmarks including the public library, can be found.

The three main ethnic backgrounds are Italian, Irish and German, comprising over three-fourths of the village's population.

The streets used for the original course remain intact today and a checkered flag marks the original start-finish line on the village's main street.

The village's main festival is Fyr Bal, a Scandinavian celebration held near the solstice in mid-June to drive out the wicked winter witch.

Coaching inns were the village's main industry.

On 15 February 2008 permission was granted for developments of two ancillary houses on a remote part of the estate, adjoining Kilcullen ( Bridge ) village's main street, incorporating residential, restaurant and retail space.

The railroad has been replaced as the village's main long-distance transportation connection by NY 17, which ran through the south portion of the village and was expanded into a freeway in the 1960s.

In common with the rest of the island the village's main industry is tourism.

The Heath was once the village's main football pitch and was the venue for many sports days for Chudleigh Knighton Church of England Primary School.

This congregation was formed by the union of two Church of Scotland congregations in 2004, when Chalmers Church-located on the village's main street, Henderson Street-closed.

After the war the population started to decrease mostly because the village's distance from main roads, the lack of markets for wine, the decreasing price of wine, and the Socialist régime's industrial politics which tended to favor the major cities over smaller settlements.

The site of the village's main pit, the Busty, is now a privately owned coach garage.

In the main cemetery of Zaouia, imamaden, these include Sidi Zekri ( the village's namesake ), Sidi Larbi and Sidi Brahim ( each said to be the ancestor of a family found there today ), and a group of seven unnamed men, the seb ` atu rijal ().

This is the main event in the village's calendar and one of the most popular traditional events in the Lake District.

Other villages were built in the Angerdorf type, where a main street fork encloses a large meadow (" Anger ") in the village's center where the life stock was kept at night, sometimes the church or other buildings not used for living were built on the Anger also.

The village's main road, the van Sminiaweg is about a mile long and named after the Sminia family.

The village's main shopping centre is the Richmond Plaza, which houses a limited selection of shops and services including a LCBO, bank, drugstore, grocer, and several restaurants.

Donkeys on the steep main street, outside the village's post office.

Beginning in the 1990s, development in Channahon took on a more upper middle-class bent, with subdivisions sprouting in the former gravel quarrying and dairy farming areas near the I & M Canal in the village's western areas, and a widely acclaimed, award winning public golf course opening in the hilly southeastern area of the village near I-55.

The village's lakefront is dominated by the 3. 0 mile long " Lake Path ," which is a public hiking trail running from the south end of Wells College to the Levana cliffs.

The village's public schools are run by the Elmsford Board of Education and include Dixon Primary, Alice E. Grady Elementary and Alexander Hamilton Junior / Senior High School.

Most of the village's public services are provided by contract with Grandview Heights, including police and fire, and it is included in the Grandview Heights School District and public library system.

In the elections of November 2007, Rebecca Hamilton and Greg Hostetler were elected to the village council, and Brad Hudson and Dean King were elected to the village's board of public affairs.

* Knutson Memorial Library, located on Main Street, is the village's public library.

The village's public park is named Pastime Park, and features baseball and softball diamonds, camping facilities, a nature walking path, two children's play parks, and the village's public pool, Pastime Pool.

Today the village's Shaker Cemetery is maintained by the township trustees and is open to the public ; while most of the settlement's buildings remain along Oxford Road, they are all privately owned.

* Herdman House now a private residence but built as the village's public library and gaming room, it at one time included a billiard hall and extensive library section before conversion to its present use

The village's public house is called the Half Moon and is noted as being one of two inns in 1577.

The village's single public house, now closed, was called the Rayleigh Arms, Lord Rayleigh being the title of the head of the Strutt baronage who live in the manor house, Terling Place.

Located on the west side of the green, this was the village's major public building and landmark.

During the village's ' hey-day ', ten public houses over a half-mile ( 0. 8 km ) stretch of the High Street reflected the large mining population at the time

Every alternate Easter the residents of Cossington open their gardens to the public for two days for the ' Secret Gardens of Cossington ' in which the village's better gardeners show off their talents, with all the proceeds of ticket sales going to charity.

One of the village's unusual features is the Pack o ' Cards public house built around 1700 by George Ley.

The village's only public transport link is the number 31 / 131 bus service operated by First Glasgow to Milton and East Kilbride.

Prior to this the village was supplied by a series of shallow wells ( many of which still remain although bricked up under the village's more modern housing estates ), although there were three springs which fed public ponds at the Queen's Head, on Lexden Road, and near the White Hart, and there was a deep well at the brewery.

The village's only Indian restaurant is appropriately called The Four Counties Spice ; this used to be the village's only public house, which was appropriately called The Four Counties Inn.