What is "hillsboro"

Usage examples of "hillsboro".

There wasn't a courthouse, because Hillsboro wasn't the county seat, but they had a square.

Puzzled, Daisy tried to think of anyone in Hillsboro who even remotely qualified as a beauty consultant.

Todd had returned to Hillsboro some fifteen years later, to take care of his mother during her last year of life, and since her death had lived quietly and alone in the old Victorian house on the edge of town.

However, there weren't very many places available for rent in Hillsboro, Alabama.

Besides, Temple Nolan, the mayor, had a real obsession about hiring only Hillsboro citizens for municipal jobs, a policy that Daisy approved of.

What was he doing here in Hillsboro, population nine thousand and something, tucked away in the north Alabama mountains?

There wasn’t a courthouse, because Hillsboro wasn’t the county seat, but they had a square.

He'd grown up in Hillsboro, a popular boy who played all the sports—foot­ball, basketball, baseball—but never been the star of any of them.

He had left Hillsboro when he was in his early twenties and, according to his doting widowed mother, did quite well for himself on Broadway, but since she never had any newspaper clippings or articles to show mentioning his name, everyone thought it was probably a mother's fond bias that led her to think he was so successful.

Todd had re­turned to Hillsboro some fifteen years later, to take care of his mother during her last year of life, and since her death had lived quietly and alone in the old Victorian house on the edge of town.

But Hillsboro was a small south­ern town, and it was still considered ill-mannered for men to use such language in front of women.

Since he'd been back in Hillsboro, he'd met only one man who remembered him, but over twenty years had passed since he'd stopped visiting Aunt Bessie except for lightning stops during the holidays, when people were busy with their own families and he hadn't had time to look up any of his old pals.

There weren't any missing per­sons from Hillsboro who fit that description.

Without any bars in Hillsboro, it wasn't unusual that he hadn't had any date-rape cases involving Ruffies or GHB—yet.

Anyway, I was thinking: you're fairly new to the area, and if you don't wander up to Scottsboro or over to Madison County in search of a little entertainment, then you aren't likely to be known outside of Hillsboro, are you?