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A sundown town is an all-White community that shows or has shown hostility toward non-Whites. Sundown town practices may be evoked in the form of city ordinances barring people of color after dark, exclusionary covenants for housing opportunity, signage warning ethnic groups to vacate, unequal treatment by local law enforcement, and unwritten rules permitting harassment.
West Grove, the western portion of the city of Garden Grove in Orange County, California, is separated from the rest of the city by the city of Stanton. The two portions of the city are connected to the rest of the city by a narrow strip of land along Garden Grove Boulevard from Beach Boulevard to Hoover Street.
Fort Lauderdale, Florida, unlike many cities in the United States, has an official program for recognizing official neighborhoods. Under the Neighborhood Organization Recognition Program, [1] over 60 distinct neighborhoods have received official recognition from the city. An additional 25-30 neighborhoods exist without official recognition ...
The riding was created in 1966 from parts of Ancaster—Dundas—Flamborough—Aldershot, Hamilton South, Hamilton West, Stoney Creek, and Wentworth ridings.. The riding's 1966 representation order indicated that Hamilton Mountain would include that part of the City of Hamilton east of a line drawn west along Mud Street, north along Mountain Brow Boulevard, and northwest along the brow of the ...
Effingham is a city in and the county seat of Effingham County, Illinois, United States.It is in South Central Illinois.Its population was 12,252 at the 2020 census. The city is part of the Effingham, IL Micropolitan Statistical Area.
This is a list of villages in Massachusetts, arranged alphabetically.. In Massachusetts, villages usually do not have any official legal status; all villages are part of an incorporated municipality (town or city - see List of municipalities in Massachusetts) which is the smallest official form of government.
The city of Seattle, Washington, contains many districts and neighborhoods.The city's former mayor Greg Nickels has described it as "a city of neighborhoods". [1] [2] [3] Early European settlers established widely scattered settlements on the surrounding hills, which grew into neighborhoods and autonomous towns.
Milford is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States.The population was 30,379 according to the 2020 census. [1] First settled in 1662 and incorporated in 1780, Milford became a booming industrial and quarrying community in the 19th century due to its unique location which includes the nearby source of the Charles River, the Mill River, the Blackstone River watershed, and large ...