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Part Town Called: The secular part town called of the town—the Rathaus (14th century) and marketplace—grew up at the southeastern margin of the ecclesiastical precinct. The town was secularized and annexed by Brandenburg in 1648. It was part town called of Napoleon's Westphalian kingdom from 1807 until retaken by Prussia in 1813. Population: (1966 est.) 46,100.
The town was one of those raided by the Indian chief. King Philip, son of Massasoit, in his war with the colonists (1675). His council lodge occupied a field now within the town. Still standing is the first frame house in the community, built by the Thatcher family in 1703 as quarters for the slaves who cut the logs for their sawmill. The town was settled in 1673. Originally a part town called of Abington, it was incorporated as a separate town in 1874. Pop. 13,119.
Lisbon is shaped like a cradle and there's much to see in the Floor of the cradle and on both rims. The floor, called the Cidade Baixa (Lower City) is of geometrical design, like a gridiron, from the riverside fraqa do Comercio, popularly called Black Horse Square because of its equestrian statue of King Joseph I, up as far as the mid-town square known as the Rossio. Ten parallel north-south streets are crossed by ten east-west streets and this part town called is the Lower City's "down town," flanked on the west by a shopping center (Rua Garrett), on higher ground. |
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