as Pike proved himself adept in the political arena, he also became a social lion in the village of Little Rock, where he served as a symbol of the culture that the ladies of the town were striving so eagerly to cultivate.

Ann Arbor became the seat of Washtenaw County in 1827, and was incorporated as a village in 1833.

This became a village of three or four log cabins, and a store was added in 1821.

He became mayor of the village after Louis XVIII returned to the throne in 1814.

Once Christianity was established, the Catholic Church became the focal point for village activities and Guam became a regular port-of-call for the Spanish galleons that crossed the Pacific Ocean from Mexico to the Philippines.

* 1380: The owner of the village which became Gdynia, Peter from Rusocin, gave the village to the Cistercian Order.

It officially became a village in 1712 and is first referred to as Grin ' wich in 1713 Common Council records.

Hanover was a small village of ferrymen and fishermen that became a comparatively large town in the 13th century due to its position at a natural crossroads.

In 1701, the settlement of Shcheglovo was founded on the left bank of the Tom ; soon it became a village.

The Tonga people were forced to leave their homes and fertile lands that had been under cultivation for hundreds of years, although their farming was of the " slash-and-burn " method whereby the villages were abandoned after a few years when the soil became less fertile, the villagers moving to a new patch of bush and building a new village, see " The Shadow of The Dam " mentioned below.

Able to absorb knowledge quickly, he became, in 1916, in the midst of World War I, a village schoolteacher at the age of 17.

From approximately the 8th century A. D., adjacent village compounds called ile coalesced into numerous territorial city-states in which clan loyalties became subordinate to dynastic chieftains.

They became so commonplace that in 965 King Edgar decreed that there should be no more than one alehouse per village.

The mine was once a bone of contention between Germany on the one side and the village that became the neutral territory of Moresnet.

Félix Houphouët-Boigny became the leader of the village in 1939.

This village centered around a small ( probably wooden ) castle or ' Motteburcht ' on an equally small hill, which became derelict and was torn down after a few centuries at most.

In the unrest of the Sengoku period ( 15th – 17th centuries ), mercenaries and spies for hire became active in the Iga Province and the adjacent area around the village of Kōga, and it is from their ninja clans that much of our knowledge of the ninja is drawn.

Some sixty years later the town ( at that time a tiny village ) became subordinate to the Hohenzollern state, and when this state was divided, Bayreuth ended up in the county of Kulmbach.

From 1780, development of the Georgian terraces had started and the fishing village became the fashionable resort of Brighton.

It was once a fishing village, and then became the home of many of the officers of the French fleet.

In November 1864, a small village of Cheyenne and Arapaho became victims of the Sand Creek massacre, an attack by the Colorado militia, led by Colonel John Chivington.

The village became the county seat in 1859, replacing the Village of Angelica.

Bujumbura grew from a small village after it became a military post in German East Africa in 1889.

The location of the station shifted the focus of the town's subsequent growth away from the original village centre.

The location of the station shifted the focus of the town's subsequent growth away from the original village centre.

Cromford was given a market place to act as a new focus for the village.

Lake levels have had an impact on the focus of village social activities.

As the culture of the village changed, so did its focus, from distributing work to employees who worked at home to the development of modern factories, through serious labor unrest and World War I, the Depression and the eventual closing of the textile mills in the 1950s.

The streets facing the village green, which has given the community a New England character, have always been the focus of commercial activity.

In response, the Luddites began to focus their attacks on nearby towns and villages, which were less well-protected ; the largest act of damage that they ever did was the complete destruction of Foster's Mill at Horbury — a village which is about east of Huddersfield.

As the primary commercial hub of the area, the village of Webster also became the focus of the community ’ s social life.

The village was also the focus of the 1996 play Sahmatah by Hanna Eady and Ed Mast.

The current, triangular market place is now grassed over and serves as a village green and the focus for events on Horn Dance Day.

Nahariya was intended to be an agricultural village, but the residents soon realized that agriculture was impractical and chose to focus on tourism, taking advantage of the natural surroundings and beaches.

The Centre is a focus for many aspects of village life including film nights, concerts, educational classes, private parties and other social events.

Initially a Iorga aficionado and an admirer of his attack on foreign influences, the Sburătorul leader left sarcastic comments on Iorga's rejection of Symbolism, and, according to Crohmălniceanu, " entire pages of ironies targeting Iorga's advice to writers that they should focus of the sufferings of their ' brother ' in the village ".

Although small in nature these have been the focus of flash flooding in the town and in Brompton village in recent years.

Many of those within the emerging church movement who do not closely identify with " emergent village " tend to avoid that organization's interest in radical theological reformulation and focus more on new ways of " doing church " and expressing their spirituality.

The village was a focus for the St Osyth Witches witch persecutions in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries with a total of ten local women being hanged as a result.

The village of Qingdao became the German colony of Tsingtau, and the area became a focus for German commercial development in China, while for the Imperial German Navy it was the naval base for their Far East Squadron.

Mallaig has its own Primary School which recently accepted the Gaelic Medium schoolchildren from neighbouring village Morar Lady Lovat Primary School, to allow that school to focus more on their English medium students.

As in Santal religion, religious specialists are drawn from the village or family and serve a wide range of spiritual functions that focus on placating potentially dangerous spirits and coordinating rituals.

Also within the Castle grounds is the hamlet and former parish church of Old Blair ( NN 867 666 ), the original focus of settlement in the area before the present village, which was laid out from the first half of the 19th century.

Erdington has a distinct concentration of retail space, known as Erdington town centre or Erdington village, the main focus of which is Erdington High Street.

The main focus of the NCMI team is to " To disciple the nations by planting New Testament churches in every village, town, city, and country that God calls them to, either by prophetic words or doors of opportunity that He ( God ) opens to them.

She therefore changed the focus of her research to a full investigation of the customs, habits and ways of thinking of the people of that village.

This remains the central focus of the village to the present day, with a war memorial situated on the central village green.