• Alexander, NY

    Submitted by scott on

    Alexander Rea purchased 28.1 acres (11.4 ha) in the town in 1802 for $56.20 and founded the village of Alexander. The next year he laid out a road, now Walnut Street and Route 98, north of the settlement. The town of Alexander was incorporated in 1812, from a part of the town of Batavia.

    Wikipedia

  • Appenweier

    Submitted by scott on

    Appenweier consists of the main municipal Appenweier (4,075 inhabitants), Urloffen (4,301 inhabitants), known for horseradish-growing, and Nesselried (1,383 inhabitants). The Nesselried district runs through the Wannenbach valley, while Urloffen lies north of Appenweier.
    Wikipedia


    Bædeker The Rhine from Rotterdam to Constance (1878) Route 46 page 285, describes Appenweier as a village with 1400 inhabitants.


     

  • Atlanta, NY

    Submitted by scott on

    Atlanta, A hamlet in the northeast part of Cohocton formerly known as "Bloods." It was founded around 1840. The Cohocton River changes from east-flowing to south-flowing at Atlanta.

    The settlement of the township was slow at first. There were many dangers and hardships: bears, bobcats, panthers, lynxes, wolves and rattlesnakes.

  • Avoca, NY

    Submitted by scott on

    Avoca, The first settler arrived around 1794. At that time, the area was home to the Seneca Indians. The town was formed from parts of four other towns in 1843: Bath, Cohocton, Howard, and Wheeler.

  • Baden-Baden, Germany

    Submitted by scott on

    July 23, 1878: The Clemens family traveled by rail to Baden Baden, Germany, staying in the Hotel de France. Sam remembered the hotel as a “plain, simple, unpretending, good hotel” in chapter 21 of A Tramp Abroad. The medicinal baths in Baden Baden were probably an inducement for the move.
    (DbyD)

  • Balaklava

    Submitted by scott on

    Balaklava (Ukrainian: Балаклава, Russian: Балаклава, Crimean Tatar: Balıqlava) is a former city on the Crimean Peninsula and part of the city of Sevastopol which carries a special administrative status in Ukraine. It was a city in its own right until 1957 when it was formally incorporated into the municipal borders of Sevastopol by the Soviet government. It also is an administrative center of Bakalava Raion that used be part of the Crimean Oblast before it was transferred under the Sevastopol Municipality.

  • Ballarat, Australia

    Submitted by scott on

    Ballarat /ˈbæləræt/[3] is a city located on the Yarrowee River and lower western plains of the Great Dividing Range in the state of Victoria, Australia, approximately 105 kilometres (65 mi) west-north-west of the state capital, Melbourne. It is the third most populous urban area in the state, with a population of 96,940[1] It is the state's most populated inland settlement, and third most populated inland settlement in Australia.[4] People from Ballarat are referred to as Ballaratians.[5]

  • Baroda, India (Vadodara)

    Submitted by scott on

    January 31 Friday – At Baroda Station, some 245 miles north of Bombay, Sam was treated to a “ride on a lurching elephant, without a mahout at the controls” [Parsons “MT India” 80]. Clara recalled this as in Colombo.

  • Bath, NY

    Submitted by scott on

    Bath, The town was founded in 1793, part of a land investment by wealthy Briton William Pulteney, and named after Bath in England, where he owned extensive estates. It was created along with Steuben County in 1796 and became a mother town of the county, eventually yielding land to seven later towns.

  • Beersheba

    Submitted by scott on

    Beer-Sheva (/bɪərˈʃiːbə/; Hebrew: בְּאֵר שֶׁבַע‎ About this sound Be'er Sheva [beʔeʁˈʃeva]; Arabic: بئر السبع‎‎ About this sound Bi'ir as-Sab [biːr esˈsabeʕ]) is the largest city in the Negev desert of southern Israel. Often referred to as the "Capital of the Negev", it is the center of the fourth most populous metropolitan area in Israel, the eighth most populous city in Israel with a population of 203,604, and the second largest city with a total of 117,500 dunams (after Jerusalem).

  • Benares, India (Varanasi)

    Submitted by scott on

    February 5 Wednesday – In Benares The Clemens family was up at 6 a.m. and spent the whole day sightseeing [Feb. 8 to Rogers]. It was likely, then, that this was the day they hired a “commodious hand-propelled ark” and took several trips up and down the Ganges.
    (Fears)

    Twain's party returned to Benares Thursday, February 20:

    where we stayed twenty-four hours and inspected that strange and fascinating piety-hive again; then left for Lucknow,

    February 21 Friday – The Clemens party left Benares for Lucknow, some 261 miles. Sam’s notebook:

  • Bendigo, Victoria, Australia

    Submitted by scott on

    Bendigo /ˈbɛndᵻɡoʊ/ is a city in Victoria, Australia, located very close to the geographical centre of the state[3] and approximately 150 kilometres (93 mi) north west of the state capital, Melbourne. As of June 2015, Bendigo had an urban population of 92,888, making it the fourth largest inland city in Australia and fourth most populous city in the state. It is the administrative centre for the City of Greater Bendigo which encompasses both the urban area and outlying towns spanning an area of approximately 3,000 square kilometres (1,158 sq mi) and over 111,000 people.

  • Bergamo, Italy

    Submitted by scott on

    Sam and companions traveled from Lecco to Bergamo where they caught the train for Venice, July 20, 1867. Mark Twain Project: Quaker City Itinerary.

    From Bædeker:

  • Beth-El - Beit El

    Submitted by scott on

    Bethel ("House of God") is mentioned in the Bible as the site where Jacob slept and dreamed of angels going up and down a ladder (Genesis 28:19). Some scholars identify Beit El with the site of the biblical Bethel. The first to establish the village of Beitin as the site of Bethel was Edward Robinson, in 1838. Henry Baker Tristram repeated this claim. J. J.

  • Brescia, Italy

    Submitted by scott on

    Sam and companions merely passed through by train on their way to Venice, July 20, 1867. Mark Twain Project: Quaker City Itinerary

    From Bædeker:

Webform