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n.
a tract of surveyed land set off for the establishing of a town.
See: town plot
Quotations
1821
There are about fourteen acres cleared for a Town site but not a single house in a finished state.
1897
The streets are sixty-six feet wide and the whole plat has been regularly entered with the Dominion Government, by Joseph Ladue, its proprietor, as a town site.
1964
That was probably much the same observation as made by New Englander Peter Pond in 1787 when he surveyed the bog sliced up by huge, navigable rivers leading to the Arctic from today's townsite.