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  • noun Plural form of townsite.

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Examples

  • On the Inside he sold flour, and blankets, and tobacco; built saw-mills, staked townsites, and sought properties in copper, iron, and coal; and that the miners should be well-equipped, ransacked the lands of the Arctic even as far as Siberia for native-made snow-shoes, muclucs, and parkas.

    CHAPTER 5 2010

  • The end of the era of platting places to respond to human sense experience was coming at about the same time as the CPR townsites were being laid out in Western Canada.

    Olympic Line (short) closure notice « Stephen Rees's blog 2010

  • There are two interesting "pyramid" sites that we visited - really townsites.

    Overnight Trips from Lakeside 2006

  • Cities and townsites such as Gede, Malindi, and Jumba la Mtwana dot the coastal region, while others, like Mombasa, Lamu, and Pate, are on islands, some still inhabited, others in ruins.

    Swahili Ghost Town 2001

  • Even now, from Bingtown to the mouth of the Rain Wild River there stretched a trail of abandoned townsites that marked the path of their attempts at settlement.

    Ship Of Magic Hobb, Robin 1998

  • The railroads would use an enlarged Homestead Act like a carrot to lure the farmers out here and end up selling them land for farms or townsites.

    Stands a Calder Man Janet Dailey 1983

  • The railroads would use an enlarged Homestead Act like a carrot to lure the farmers out here and end up selling them land for farms or townsites.

    Stands a Calder Man Janet Dailey 1983

  • The railroads would use an enlarged Homestead Act like a carrot to lure the farmers out here and end up selling them land for farms or townsites.

    Mistletoe and Holly Janet Dailey 1982

  • The railroads would use an enlarged Homestead Act like a carrot to lure the farmers out here and end up selling them land for farms or townsites.

    Mistletoe and Holly Janet Dailey 1982

  • The railroads would use an enlarged Homestead Act like a carrot to lure the farmers out here and end up selling them land for farms or townsites.

    Mistletoe and Holly Janet Dailey 1982

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