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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
See 1945 quote.
Quotations
1789
The Scite of the county town agreed upon, you will direct the Surveyor for the district to lay out the township and proceed to receive applications and issue certificates for Town and Farm lots therein . . . as soon as may be.
1945
In each county there is a county town with a court house and jail, and accommodation for the county offices and the meetings of the county council.
1959
Durham was the centre of political activity for Agnes, though Owen Sound was the county town.