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n. (alternative form of lang=en oldtown)
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Housing Units (2000): 3686
Land area (2000): 38.293664 sq. miles (99.180129 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 4.371623 sq. miles (11.322451 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 42.665287 sq. miles (110.502580 sq. km)
FIPS code: 55225
Located within: Maine (ME), FIPS 23
Location: 44.943047 N, 68.676461 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 04468
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The old town of a city or town is its historic or original core. Although the city is usually larger in its present form, many cities have redesignated this part of the city to commemorate its origins after thorough renovations. There are many places throughout the world named old town (and this is sometimes construed as a proper noun and capitalized). This is a list of some famous old towns:
The Old Town of Prague is a medieval settlement of Prague, Czech Republic. It was separated from the outside by a semi-circular moat and wall, connected to the Vltava river at both of its ends. The moat is now covered up by the streets (from north to south-west) Revoluční, Na Příkopě, and Národní—which remain the official boundary of the cadastral community of Old Town. It is now part of Prague 1.
Notable places in the Old Town include the Old New Synagogue, Old Town Square and Astronomical Clock. The Old Town is surrounded by the New Town of Prague. Across the river Vltava connected by the Charles Bridge is the Lesser Town of Prague . The former Jewish Town ( Josefov) is located in the northwest corner of Old Town heading towards the Vltava.
Old Town is the name given to the historic district of the island of Key West, Florida.
It is basically the western half of the island, with the exception of the Historic Seaport district.
It is where the central business district and the majority of tourist attractions are located.
Image:Duval Street.jpg|Overview of part of Old Town Key West from atop the La Concha hotel. Image:Southernmosthouse.jpg|Southernmost House, a Victorian-style mansion in Old Town Key West. Image:Keywestcustomshouse.jpg|Former Key West Customs House, now Museum of History in Old Town Key West. Image:Bullandwhistlebar.jpg|The Bull & Whistle bars, in Old Town Key West.
Lviv's Old Town (; ) is the historic centre of the city of Lviv, within the Lviv Oblast ( province) in Ukraine, recognized as the State Historic-Architectural Sanctuary in 1975.
"Old Town" is a song released by Thin Lizzy frontman Philip Lynott from his 1982 self-titled solo album, The Philip Lynott Album. The song was written about the breakup of two lovers, and contains piano by Darren Wharton. In the music video, Lynott can be seen on the Ha'penny Bridge in Dublin, as well as several other locations around Dublin City Centre.
"Old Town" was the first record to be officially played on Irish legal Independent Radio. It was the first song played by Dublin's Capital Radio 104.4 on its launch on 20 July 1989.
Old Town is a Staten Island Railway station in the neighborhood of Old Town, Staten Island, New York.
Located in the northern end of Lansing, Michigan, Old Town overlooks the Grand River and a winding bike trail. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the North Lansing Historic Commercial District, the district was established in the mid-19th century.
Old Town was a Chickasaw village in northeast Mississippi in present-day Lee County.
Old Town was located at .
Old Town in Gdańsk refers to the part of the city north of the modern city center.
Notable structures include:
- Gdańsk Granaries
- Gdańsk Mills
- Gdańsk Town Hall
- Monument of King Sobieski
- Polish Post
- Preachers' House
- several old buildings ( kamienice) and churches
Category:Gdańsk
Old Town Station is an A-train commuter rail station in Lewisville, Texas. It serves commuters from Lewisville and is a destination station in the city's historic downtown area.
Old Town is an archaeological site in Williamson County, Tennessee near Franklin. The site includes the remnants of a Native American village and mound complex of the Mississippian culture, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) as Old Town Archaeological Site ( 40WM2).
Old Town is an amusement park and outdoor shopping mall located in Kissimmee, Osceola County, Florida, United States. Operating since 1986, the original purpose of what could now be known as an entertainment complex was to provide a unique shopping experience. The rides were added in the 2000s in order to boost attendance.
Old Town has been known to harbor a small population of squirrels that are photo opportunities for nature photographers and those wanting to take a break from the hectic life of shopping.
Usage examples of "old town".
Our arrival, I have reason to believe, was an event in the old town.
You may be sure that in the time of King James the First, Windsor was a very quaint queer old town, and you may take it upon my authority that John Podgers was a very quaint queer old fellow.
Like the old town of Taranto, Cotrone occupies the site of the ancient acropolis, a little headland jutting into the sea.
Nihilism even more often born of a walk through the Old Town in mid-August.
It was being rebuilt, and new tent segments were being tacked onto the old town, extending west and east far along the plateau’.
And as she rattled through the evening streets of Balmoran Old Town and watched the crowds moving among the shops and taverns Rachel had a hard time envisioning her upcoming duties.
Twenty years is a long time to remember the tortuous turnings of the streets of the Old Town.
I return to base early since there is not much doing in the old town tonight.
One of my windows looked towards the old town, with its long sea-wall where fishermen's nets hung drying, the dome of its Cathedral, the high, squeezed houses, often with gardens on the roofs, and the swing-bridge which links it to the mainland.
Cargy said his goodbyes and moved away, drawing his wagon around the spaceport perimeter and into the Old Town section of the city.
Demolition vehicles had cleared the wreckage of the old town, shoving most of it over the rim, and leaving only the easternmost section of town, around the old socket, as a kind of monument to the disaster—.
This American had started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the old town a good turn.
The ascent from the Rhone bridge at Susten is full of interest, affording fine views of the valley, which is better to look at than to travel through, and bringing you almost immediately to the old town of Leuk, a queer, old, towered place, perched on a precipice, with the oddest inn, and a notice posted up to the effect, that any one who drives through its steep streets faster than a walk will be fined five francs.