county seat

NOUN
  1. the town or city that is the seat of government for a county
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How To Use county seat In A Sentence

  • Lefors, founded in 1900 as the Gray County seat, long has faced an uncertain future.
  • Some of the first postal connections, for instance, linked county seats to state capitals and ultimately to Washington, D.C.
  • Like all lumbering communities Dryden did not present a very advanced or refined state of development in that period, and John Southworth, who was a keen and careful observer of men and things in those times in which he participated, used to say in after years that the Dryden farmer, who occasionally took out of his clearing in those days to the county seat of this or an adjoining county with his ox team a load of lumber, or perhaps a cargo of charcoal, or sometimes a few barrels of potash salts leached from the ashes gathered after the burning of his fallow, when he was interrogated by the tradesmen to who he sold his products as to where his home was, would admit with no little hesitation and embarrassment, that he lived "just in the edge of Dryden. Living in Dryden: Developing Dryden, circa 1825
  • Each county page has an almanac style display with information related to the county, such as county seat, date formed, and origin of name.
  • When the monument designation scotched that plan, predictions of economic doom rang through the county seat.
  • Our first stop was Clarinda, which is the county seat. Day #2: Hitting the Road In Page County, Iowa.
  • Forest: ash, elm, white and red oak, chestnut, poplar, &c. LINCOLN is the county seat, 170 miles south west, from Raleigh. A Guide to Capitalists and Emigrants: Being a Statistical and Descriptive Account of the Several Counties of the State of North Carolina, United States of America; Together with Letters of Prominent Citizens of the State in Relation to the Soil, Climate,
  • I remember a rally in Anniston, the county seat, remember a band playing "Dixie", and an undulating canopy of Confederate battle flags, a whole auditorium of Stars and Bars and fluttering red.
  • Lefors, founded in 1900 as the Gray County seat, long has faced an uncertain future.
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