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  2. Markets of Taiping, Perak - Wikipedia

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    Located at the commercial town center at the Market Square, there are two markets that built separately and separated by the Kota Road. The Old Market was built in 1884 and the New Market in 1885. Both buildings stood 220 feet in length and 60 feet in width. The buildings were built with timber pillars, concrete slab and iron roof. [1]

  3. Taiping Clock Tower - Wikipedia

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    The first clock tower on the site was a wooden construction built in 1881 which was replaced in 1891 by a brick building of which only a small section remains today. Known locally as "the Fort", its primary use was as a police station for the British administration although within a few years of its construction it was also used as the town's ...

  4. Taiping, Perak - Wikipedia

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    Taiping was the capital for the districts of Larut, Matang and Selama in Perak. Before 1937, Taiping was the capital of the state of Perak and the centre of a long and drawn out war resulting in a change of rulership for the state. Taiping used to be known as Klian Pauh – Klian meaning mine while Pauh is a type of small mango. Taiping town.

  5. List of plantations in the United States - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the United States of America that are national memorials, National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places or other heritage register, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design.

  6. List of U.S. National Historic Landmarks by state - Wikipedia

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    New York is the state with the most (270), and New York City, with 114 designations, is the city with the largest number of designations. Of the states, North Dakota has the fewest designations with seven. Three cities (New York City, Philadelphia, and Boston) have enough listings to warrant lists separate from their respective states.

  7. Conurbation - Wikipedia

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    Skyscrapers of Shinjuku, Japan, January 2009 . A conurbation is a region consisting of a number of metropolises, cities, large towns, and other urban areas which, through population growth and physical expansion, have merged to form one continuous urban or industrially developed area.

  8. List of company towns in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Granite City, Illinois, built by St. Louis Stamping Company, a steel company known for its "Granite ware" in which cooking utensils were made to look like granite Hegewisch, Chicago , founded by Adolph Hegewisch (President of the United States Rolling Stock Company) to emulate the company town of Pullman.

  9. Zhongshan Taiping Church - Wikipedia

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    'Zhongshan Peace Church'), full name Zhongshan City Christian Taiping Church, abbreviation Taiping Church, is located in Zhongshan, the hometown of Christian Sun Yat-sen in China. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Taiping Church was built in 1928, a replica of a Gothic building with an area of about 500 square meters, and is now the main Protestant church in the city.