Sentence examples for former towns from inspiring English sources

The city of Stoke-on-Trent combines the former towns of Burslem, Fenton, Hanley, Longton, Stoke-upon-Trent, and Tunstall.

The former towns of Mackenzie, Wismar, and Christianborg, which were unified as Linden (1971), grew up around the large mining camp that was established by the Aluminum Company of Canada, and later nationalized as the Guyana Bauxite Company.

Gannett has even noticed that two of every three families who buy houses in Westchester have lived somewhere else in the county and want to keep up with news of their former towns as well as their current ones.

Narashino is situated on the northeastern shore of Tokyo Bay. Formed in 1951 by the merger of Minomi, Maka, Tsuda-numa, and Okubo, the settlement has no city centre because the former towns are lined up along two railways to Tokyo.

The city itself is composed of 16 former towns and municipalities absorbed by the city in the 19th century.

The former town hall sits abandoned.

"We respected him," said John Stearns, a former town selectman.

Glace Bay, former town, Cape Breton county, northeastern Nova Scotia, Canada.

"I'm excited," Clinton Smith, the former town supervisor, said.

"Now, the dirty war begins," said a former town official.

The defendants included former town hall officials, lawyers and business representatives.