X-Nico

unusual facts about Townsite


Townsite

In 1975, the Whistler townsite was created and eventually incorporated as a municipality.


Similar

Bagby Stationhouse, Water Tanks and Turntable

The structures now located at El Portal were originally built in Bagby, and were moved from that location in 1966 when the townsite was to be inundated by the filling of Lake McClure behind New Exchequer Dam.

Beeton

The railway split just north of the townsite, at a location then known as Allimil, running northeast through Cookstown to Barrie and northwest through Alliston to Collingwood.

Belle Plaine, Minnesota

Minnesota Territorial Supreme Court Judge Andrew G. Chatfield selected the townsite of Belle Plaine in 1853 while traveling from Mendota to Traverse des Sioux to hold court, as it was a halfway marker on his usual path of travel.

Black Hawk, Colorado

Development of the area down Clear Creek from the historic Black Hawk townsite lining State Highway 119 has flourished.

Cataraqui, Ontario

The original townsite of what is now downtown Kingston, Ontario, as founded 1673 to house a French colonial military outpost.

Francis Lyman Worden

In 1868, Worden and Higgins sold their business interests in Deer Lodge and, with Washington J. McCormick, planned 100 acres of the townsite of Missoula.

Hadley, Nevada

Legal questions regarding the land at the Round Mountain townsite precluded expansion at that location; the company began exploring other feasible options and within the next two years had acquired the ICT Ranch in Smoky Valley from one Ingvard Christianson and began platting and construction at the new town's site.

History of Olympia, Washington

At the request of the Hudson's Bay Company, French Catholic missionaries established Mission St. Joseph of Newmarket and school in the 1848 at Priest Point near the future townsite for the conversion of natives to Catholicism.

John Deighton

This bar was demolished when the townsite of Granville was established and was afterwards rebuilt as Deighton House.

Lincoln, California

The original townsite was surveyed and laid out in 1859 by Theodore Judah along the proposed line of the California Central Railroad.

Mount Pleasant, Utah

The old settlement was burned down by local Native Americans, so when a large colonizing party from Ephraim and Manti returned to the area in 1859, a new, permanent townsite was laid out in its present location—one hundred miles south of Salt Lake City and twenty-two miles northeast of Manti.

Nagrom, Washington

Circa 1967, the city purchased the entire townsite of Lester, Washington, from the Northern Pacific Railway.

Nannine, Western Australia

In 1892 John Forrest, the Commissioner for Crown Lands decided to have lots surveyed and a townsite declared, although Forrest referred to the place as "Annean", the name of the nearby pastoral station.

Pettygrove Park

The park was named for Francis Pettygrove, one of the early settlers of the Portland townsite.

Rayado, New Mexico

Some of the land in the townsite was purchased by Waite Phillips in the 1920s and Phillips later donated it to the Boy Scouts of America and it became part of the Philmont Scout Ranch.

Royal Engineers, Columbia Detachment

Just a mile outside of the townsite, the Engineer's camp developed into a settlement of its own-- the area is still known as Sapperton.

Serpentine, Victoria

The Burke and Wills expedition is alleged to passed the townsite in 1860 while attempting to reach the Gulf of Carpentaria.

Skagit City, Washington

Today, the city of Cedardale, Washington, is the closest city to the former townsite, and the name "Skagit City" has become simply a placename on the northeastern tip of Fir Island at where two distributaries diverge and carry Skagit River water into Skagit Bay, which branches off the Strait of Juan de Fuca.

Three Springs, Western Australia

Luzenac, an Imerys company, operates the largest talc mine in the southern hemisphere just outside the Three Springs townsite.

Tuckanarra, Western Australia

A state battery was erected by the government in 1898 which led to the local progress association petitioning for a townsite to be declared.

Wannamal, Western Australia

In 1892 the Midland railway was extended as far as Wannamal and a siding was opened in the townsite in 1895.

Ypsilanti Township, Stutsman County, North Dakota

Part of this land became Ypsilanti Township and the Ypsilanti townsite.


see also