Sentence examples for a townsite from inspiring English sources

Settlement grew around the hotel, and a townsite was gazetted in the 1890s.

Finally, in the late 1940s, the provincial government began building a road 150 miles (240 km) long, from Saint-Félicien, and laid out a townsite.

The mines remained dormant from roughly 1860 until the 1900s when a townsite was laid out and a railroad built to Gila Bend, 40 miles (64 km) north.

Steele platted a townsite in 1849 and gave it the name "St.

In 1877, Meeker filed a plat for a townsite to surround his cabin.

On the west side of the river, John H. Stevens platted a townsite in 1854.

The highest iodine-129 concentration of 0.19 pCi/L (0.007 Bq/L) was also found in a Hanford Townsite spring.

The coming of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) to southern Alberta in 1885 helped the Edmonton economy, and the 1891 building of the Calgary and Edmonton (C&E) Railway resulted in the emergence of a railway townsite (South Edmonton/Strathcona) on the south side of the river, across from Edmonton.

From 1918 until the 1930s, the present townsite hosted a trading post on a grassy pasture known to the Sekani and Saulteaux as Little Prairie.

As he had been instructed, Durand circulated the offers at York during a session of the Legislative Assembly and a new Gore District was established of which the Hamilton townsite was a member.

On December 10 , 1854 after helping to find a location for the new townsite of Topeka, he wrote a letter to his wife saying: :"I am now thirty miles above Lawrence on the Kansas River assisting in starting a new town.