Sentence examples for townsite from inspiring English sources
noun
(in former British colonies) A tract of land authorized to be developed as a town and then surveyed and marked out with streets
(An alternative account holds that the townsite was named for the granite rocks of the nearby Dragoon Mountains, which stand out against the landscape like tombstones).
The Iowa Land Company purchased the townsite in 1855 and renamed it for DeWitt Clinton, former governor of New York.
Settlement grew around the hotel, and a townsite was gazetted in the 1890s.
Although founded in 1837 as Cross Plains, it was renamed, probably, for the mother of Edward White (head of the syndicate that bought the townsite), whose maiden name was Dalton.
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.
In 1958 the federal government ceded the townsite, then about 33 square miles (85 square km), to Boulder City's residents.
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 ejido consists of cultivated land, pastureland, other uncultivated lands, and the fundo legal (townsite).
They moved their families out and excised part of the pastoral lease to be the Jarlmadangah townsite, giving it the Nyikina name for Mount Anderson.
To the east lay the neatly marked out townsites of Zeus, Neptune, Apollo, and Athena.
These townsites were meticulously drawn up into maps for risktakers who would purchase lots for their businesses or homes.
