Sentence examples for land tract from inspiring English sources

Settled near the end of the American Revolution and originally named Cannonsburgh, it was established in 1811 on a land tract donated by a Revolutionary War soldier, Colonel William Lytle, and named for a friend, Colonel Hardy Murfree.

Originally part of a land tract bought by Kiliaen van Rensselaer, a diamond merchant of Amsterdam, from the Mohawk Indians in 1630, it was incorporated (1836) as the Village of West Troy, combining Gibbonsville, Washington, and Port Schuyler.

It was founded in 1895 and is located on the original land tract granted in 1829 to Thomas Peel, a cousin of the British prime minister Robert Peel, for a grandiose but unsuccessful colonization venture.

Salem (from the Hebrew shalom, meaning "peace") was laid out in 1766 by Moravian colonists in the centre of their Wachovia land tract; it was incorporated in 1856, when the land was sold to outsiders.

Mauzy's survey stated that White had been residing on the land tract since at least 1751.

Following the purchase of a rectangular land tract around 1990, the cemetery was expanded on the east side.

Extensive land tracts in the northern, northeastern, and southwestern parts of the country were without roads.

The court rejected arguments from a California county and a conservative legal group, the Mountain States Legal Foundation, that presidents cannot constitutionally designate large land tracts as monuments.

Shows land tracts west of Galveston Bay and north of Clear Lake and Clear Creek. 1 map : mounted on card stock ; 30 x 33 cm., on card 48 x 37 cm.

It's not necessarily my favorite, but I came across some really interesting maps of land tracts that Princeton acquired from the early 1900s in the Office of Physical Planning Records.

TransCanada asserts that it has used eminent domain only as "an absolute last resort" in an estimated 19 out of 1,452 land tracts in Texas.