The Bethalto Log Cabin stands as a symbol of the village's pioneer past as well as the resourcefulness of its present youth.

In the 1950s, the northern portion of the unincorporated area then known as Wheatley Hills was annexed and incorporated into the village, approximately doubling the village's area to its present.

* 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

Since the 17th century the location of present day Enugu has been settled by the Nike ( ) subgroup of the Igbo people ; one of Enugu's neighbourhoods still retains the village's old name Ogui.

Other local historians note the existence of a local dignatory named Wolvis during Saxon times and hold that his occupancy of nearby land may be the root of the present village's name.

The reason for the Japanese name " harbor wave " is that sometimes a village's fishermen would sail out, and encounter no unusual waves while out at sea fishing, and come back to land to find their village devastated by a huge wave.

Other sources suggest that the fictional village's name was constructed from the Celtic word " briga ", which means " town " ( such as in the old city names of Segobriga and Brigantium ) and the Scottish Gaelic " dùn ", which means a fort.

Prior to Domesday, the village's name appears to have gone through a number of changes.

The village's name comes from the Anglo-Saxon Sibbwines tūn: " Sibbwine's farmstead ".

") In 1823, European-American families from Georgia, looking for fertile crop land, established a permanent settlement on the high bluffs of the area and adopted the Creek village's name.

Hoveton Great Broad and Hoveton Little Broad carry the village's name.

However, this place name appears to have been due to a mistaken transcription of the village name Kalifornsky, which took its name from the surname of the village's founder, a Dena ' ina Indian named Qadanalchen ( meaning " acts quickly " in the Outer Inlet dialect of the Dena ' ina language ).

The village's residents did not care for the name and changed it to El Cerrito in 1916.

The village's name is derived from a Spanish term used to describe " The Gate ," after two huge wooden gates on Northeast Second Avenue that were taken down in the 1940s.

The village's name comes from a local landowner and businessman, Jefferson Hodgkins and is unrelated to the discoverer of Hodgkin's Lymphoma, Thomas Hodgkin.

It is unclear exactly how Hodgkins ' name came to replace Gary as the village's moniker.

The village's founders wished to use the name " Germantown " to reflect Hoshor's Germantown House and the area's large German-American representation, but the name was taken by a village in southern Illinois.

Eventually, the village's name would become Lockport.

In 1852, the citizens of Goose River voted to change their village's name to Rockport for its rocky terrain.

The village's early name was " South Northbridge ", before the Whitin family's rise to prominence.

De Tour was incorporated as De Tour Village in 1961 ( the word " Village " is a part of the village's name ).

A post office named " Cedar " was established in 1838, but was renamed " Fowlerville " in 1853, after the village's plat name.

The name Daggett either refers Elmira Daggett, a New York native that came to the area to visit her brother and is then said to have become the village's first postmistress, or to postmistress Clara Daggett's father ( a native of Elmira, New York ), the father-in-law of the village's founder, Thomas Faulkner.

As the area received more and more English-speaking settlers, the village's name became Owen's Station.

In the 1920s a poet composed " The Ballad of Weeping Water " giving a romantic flavor to the village's name.

The village's name derives from Ancient Celtic cumbā " valley " which was taken into Old English.

The village's name derives from the Gaelic for " low pass ", relating to its geographical location.

The Foliot part of the village's name derives from the Foliot family, John Foliot being a half-brother of William the Conqueror and recipient of large amounts of land for services rendered during the Norman conquest.

The village's name derives from Old English ; there are two possible derivations.

The village's winding High Street lies a little inland from the coast.

The size of a village's population depends on the amount of land available for farming ; thus villages can range from as few as 30 people to as many as 2000.

The village and the gorge take their names from the village's ancient church, Óssia María.

According to information displayed in the church of St Peter Belaugh, in 1695 Richard Slater-a servant at the village's rectory-stole money and jewels from the church and buried them in the rectory garden.

In the mid-1940s, after returning to Solvang from a trip to Denmark, he first completed Møllebakken, his Danish-styled home, and then went on to build the first of the village's four windmills.

This list of past presidents of the Village of Hodgkins comes from the village's publication, 100 Years of Progress, published for the Village's Centennial celebration in 1996.

The village is at the eastern corners of these townships and some development extends into the adjacent Harrisville Township and Haynes Township, although land from neither township is within the village's corporate boundaries.

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

Only two of the village's streets run uphill from Route 353: Rumsey Street ( the easternmost tip of Waite Hollow Road ) on the village's southern boundary and West Street at the peak of the hill.

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 name is derived from Dexter Borup, one of the village's stockholders.

The name is derived from the village's early history as a port on the Black River Canal.

Shortly after Hempstead separated from Queens County in 1899, people began to move to " Beautiful Baldwin ", as it was called by Charles Luerssen, a village realtor, for the village's fine boating, bathing, and fishing.

The village is centered around NY 208 which runs through it for the village's two-mile ( 3. 2 km ) length in a northeast-southwest orientation, from the small extension in the Town of Hamptonburgh to its northern boundary.

The village's most notable geographical feature is the Wallkill River, which flows from the south to the north across the village and divides one-third of it from the rest.

While it eventually drove smaller stores from Main Street, it remains a substantial part of the village's tax base and a major draw for consumers from outside not only Walden but the Town of Montgomery ( particularly the nearby hamlet of Wallkill, which has no large retailers of its own ), despite the openings of chain supermarkets in several nearby communities.