Liluah - The Town

Beltana, South Australia - History - The Town
... The town’s first building was Martin’s eating house which was built in 1870 to take advantage of the discovery of copper at Sliding Rock 20 km east of Beltana ... The town's location had already been chosen as a repeater station site for the Australian overland telegraph and in 1870 the telegraph contract of Charles Todd brought ... In 1873 the town was surveyed and laid out with an enthusiastic 115 allotments, room allowed for parklands and further expansion, with reserved allotments for a school, police station and hospital ...

Acatlán, Hidalgo - The Town
... The town itself straddles the Huasca-Tulancingo road and serves as a commerce center for the surrounding rural Tulancingo Valley ... The town center has municipality’s main public buildings, including the area’s only library, the Biblioteca Pública Municipal Profra ... The town hosts the Expo-Acatlán at the end of September, which features dairy products and crafts as well as rides, cultural events and other attractions ...

Brilliant, Alabama - History
... The present Town of Brilliant was incorporated as Boston, Alabama and was named for the City of Boston, Massachusetts and in part for early settlers of the area, the Bostick family ... Company, which was located adjacent to the town of Boston ... forever with the passage of Act 284 by the Alabama Legislature, which changed the name of the town of Boston to Brilliant ...

Chad Of Mercia - Notable Dedications - Toponyms
... The existence of a minster dedicated to Chad in this town seems to be a legend traceable to Burton's 1890 History of Kidderminster, in which the author acknowledges that the only evidence for such a ... of the monastery and then explain the name of the town from it – a circular argument that collapses if a plausible alternative explanation is available for the name ... plausible explanation for the name of the town than St Chad or his non-existent minster ...