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He is credited with lowering crime, reforming the school system, and helping the economy in the city.
However, his reputation was hurt by accusations of corruption.
The current mayor is Luke Bronin.
Connecticut cities provide almost all local services such as fire and rescue, education, and snow removal.
This is because county government no longer exists in Connecticut since 1960.
In 2008, Hartford passed a law that gives services to all residents no matter what their immigration was.
That law also stops police from arresting people only because of their immigration status.
It also stops police from asking about a person's immigration status.
In 2016, Hartford said it was a "Sanctuary city", although the term itself does not have an legal meaning.
The Hartford Fire Department provides all fire protection in Hartford.
They have 12 fire stations in the Hartford.
It is the fifth-biggest fire department in Connecticut.
They also have a fire apparatus fleet.
The Hartford Police Department was created in 1860.
Although, law enforcement in Hartford started in 1636.
It is at 253 High Street.
It includes divisions such as animal control, bomb squad, and detective bureau.
Hartford is an important place for medical care, research, and education.
In Hartford itself, the city has Hartford Hospital, The Institute of Living, Connecticut Children's Medical Center, and Saint Francis Hospital & Medical Center (which merged in 1990 with Mount Sinai Hospital).
In March 2018, Infosys said they would open a new technology innovation hub in Hartford.
This would create up to 1,000 jobs by 2022.
The Hartford technology innovation hub will focus on three key things- insurance, healthcare and manufacturing.
Local unemployment is high in Hartford compared to other cities, the state, and the nation.
Hartford's unemployment rate of 7.5% in the fall of 2018 was the highest of the four biggest cities in Connecticut.
As a whole, Connecticut's unemployment rate remains above 5% while the National rate hovers just under 4%.
The daily Hartford Courant newspaper is the United States's oldest continuously published newspaper.
It was created in 1764.
A weekly newspaper called the Hartford Advocate also serves Hartford and the surrounding area.
Other newspapers include the Hartford Business Journal ("Greater Hartford's Business Weekly") and the weekly Hartford News.
The Hartford region also has some magazines.
They include the Hartford Magazine, a monthly lifestyle magazine serving Greater Hartford; CT Cottages & Gardens; Connecticut Business, a monthly magazine serving all of Connecticut; and Home Living CT, a home and garden magazine published five times per year.
Hartford Public Schools runs the public school system.
Hartford Public High School, the nation's second-oldest high school, is in the Asylum Hill neighborhood of Hartford.
Amtrak provides service from Hartford to Vermont via Springfield and southward to New Haven.
The station also has many bus companies.
Bradley International Airport (BDL) is in Windsor Locks, Connecticut.
It has more than 150 flights every day.
Those flights go to over 30 different places on 9 airlines.
Connecticut Transit provides bus service between Bradley International Airport and downtown Hartford.
Other airports serving the Hartford area include:
Hartford-Brainard Airport (HFD), located in Hartford off I-91 and close to Wethersfield; has charter and local flights
Westover Metropolitan Airport (CEF), located in Chicopee, Massachusetts,  north of Hartford; hass commercial, local, charter, and military flights
Tweed New Haven Regional Airport (HVN), located in New Haven; has American Eagle
Connecticut Transit (CTtransit) is owned by the Connecticut Department of Transportation.
The Hartford Division of CTtransit runs the local bus service in the city and the surrounding area.
Hartford's Downtown Area Shuttle (DASH) bus route is a free downtown circulator.
All city buses have bike racks.
The first American cookbook was American Cookery, The Art of Dressing Viands, Fish, Poultry, and Vegetables by Amelia Simons, was published in Hartford by Hudson & Goodwin in 1796.
It was also the first cookbook to have recipes for squash and cornmeal.
It also had the first published recipe for pumpkin pie.
It influenced a generation of American baking with a recipe for leavening bread with pearl ash.
The full text of the book is available online.
Hartford got praise from Food and Wine as "a foodie destination".
Hartford has many seasonal farmers' markets.
The Hartford Regional Market is the biggest market between New York City and Boston.
As of 2019, Hartford has a USL team.
They play in the 9,600 seat Dillon Stadium.
Some of America's most famous authors lived in Hartford, including Mark Twain (1835–1910).
He moved to Hartford in 1874.
Twain's next-door neighbor at Nook Farm was Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–96).
Poet Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) was an insurance executive in Hartford.
World War II correspondent Lyn Crost (1915–97) lived in Hartford.
Hartford has many sister cities.
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Dover is the capital city of the U.S. state of Delaware.
It is the county seat of Kent County, which is in the middle of the state.
Dover had 36,047 people in 2010.
William Penn founded Dover as the court town for newly established Kent County in 1683.
Penn was the proprietor of the territory generally known as the "Lower Counties on the Delaware."
In 1717, a special commission of the Delaware General Assembly laid out the city.
The capital of the state of Delaware was moved here from Newcastle in 1777 because of its central location and relative safety from British raiders on the Delaware River.
Because of an act passed in October 1779, the assembly elected to meet at any place in the state they saw fit, meeting successively in Wilmington, Lewes, Dover, Newcastle, and Lewes again, until the capital moved to Dover permanently in October 1781.
The city's central square, known as The Green, was the location of many rallies, troop reviews, and other patriotic events.
Today, The Green remains the heart of Dover's historic district and is the location of the Delaware Supreme Court and the Kent County Courthouse.
Dover and Kent County were deeply divided over the issue of slavery, and the city was a "stop" on the Underground Railroad.
It was also home to a large Quaker community that encouraged a sustained emancipation effort in the early nineteenth century.
There were very few slaves in the area, but a majority of people wanted to keep slavery legal until the Civil War.
The main north–south highway through Dover is U.S. Route 13, which runs through the main commercial strip of Dover on the multi-lane, divided Dupont Highway.
An alternate route of U.S. Route 13, U.S. Route 13 Alternate, passes through downtown Dover on Governors Avenue.
The Delaware Route 1 turnpike, which provides the main route to Wilmington and the Delaware beaches, passes to the east of Dover.
It ends near the Dover Air Force Base and DE 1 continues south on Bay Road.
U.S. Route 113 formerly ran along Bay Road from Milford to US 13 near the State Capitol Complex, however it was decommissioned in 2004 to avoid the concurrency with DE 1 between the Dover Air Force Base and Milford.
Delaware Route 8 is the main east–west route through Dover, passing through downtown on Division Street and West Dover on Forrest Avenue.
It continues west toward Maryland to provide access to the Chesapeake Bay Bridge.
Dover is one of only four state capitals not served by an interstate highway.
Dover Air Force Base is inside the southeast corporate limits of Dover, however the closest sizable civilian airport to Dover is the New Castle Airport in New Castle.
The closest airports with commercial air service to Dover include the Wicomico Regional Airport in Salisbury, Maryland, the Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport in Baltimore, Maryland, and the Philadelphia International Airport in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Dover is on a former Pennsylvania Railroad line, which is now served by Norfolk Southern.
At one time Dover had a daily Amtrak passenger service; however, the line now is just used for local freight.
The closest passenger rail station is the Amtrak station in Wilmington.
DART First State provides weekday local bus service throughout Dover, speading from the Water Street Transfer Center in downtown.
They also provide inter-county service to Wilmington and Georgetown and seasonal service to Rehoboth Beach.
Dover has Delaware State University, a land-grant university and Delaware's only historically black university, and Wesley College.
It is also home to the Terry Campus of the Delaware Technical & Community College and that college's administrative offices.
Dover also has satellite locations of the University of Delaware and Wilmington University.
Three public high schools serve Dover residents.
Caesar Rodney High School, in the Caesar Rodney School District (just outside the city in Camden); Dover High School, in the Capital School District;  and Polytech High School, in the Polytech School District (in Woodside).
The Dover Air Force Base Middle School is on the grounds of the Dover Air Force Base.
This school is unusual in that it is run by the Caesar Rodney School District and not the Department of Defense.
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1683 establishments in the Thirteen Colonies
Boise is the capital city of the U.S. state of Idaho.
It is also the county seat of Ada County.
The Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial is in Boise.
It is the only human rights memorial in the US.
Although different people believe different stories about the origin of the name, it is generally accepted that the name Boise originates from the French word boisée which means wooded.
Torrie Wilson: model
Wayne Walker: former football player and Sports commentator
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1860s establishments in Idaho Territory
Springfield is the capital city of the U.S. state of Illinois.
It is the county seat and largest city of Sangamon County, Illinois.
It is close to the center of the state.
In the 2000 census, Springfield had more than 110,000 people living in it.
The state Capitol, in the middle of Springfield, is where the General Assembly (the state's legislature) meets and where the governor's office is.
The Capitol is a big building with a dome that can be seen from many miles away.
Springfield also has an old capitol, which is now a historic site.
Springfield was the home of Abraham Lincoln before he was elected president in 1860.
Lincoln was a lawyer and practiced law many places in Illinois.
His office is near the old capitol.
When he died, his body was brought back to Springfield.
His home, his law office, his tomb are all open to the public.
Springfield also has a new building with a museum and library dedicated to him and his presidency.
Springfield has two Interstate highways: I-55 and I-72.
I-55 runs from Chicago to Springfield and then through St. Louis, Missouri.
Springfield also has many smaller roads to other cities.
Indianapolis is the capital city and largest city in the state of Indiana, in the United States.
In the 2000 census, it had more than 790,000 people living in it, making it one of the 15 largest cities in the country.
It is the home of the Indianapolis Colts football team and the Indiana Pacers basketball team.
Each May, the city hosts the "Indianapolis 500" car race.
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1821 establishments in Indiana
Des Moines is a city in Iowa.
It is the capital city of Iowa.
The city had a population of 203,433 in the 2010 United States Census.
It is the home of the Des Moines Art Center, a regional art museum, and the Pappajohn Sculpture Park, an outdoor scultpure garden.
County seats in Iowa
Topeka () is the capital city of the U.S. state of Kansas.
Topeka is the county seat of Shawnee County, and it is in the northeast part of the state.
In 2010, 127,473 people lived there.
Topeka was established in 1854 when nine white men founded the Topeka Town Association.
At an election in November 1861, the people of Kansas chose Topeka as the permanent capital of the state.
The name Topeka is made up of three words from the Kaw, Omaha, and Iowa Native American tribes.
The first, to, means "potato".
The second, pe (short for pekae) is an adjective meaning "good".
The third, okae, means "to dig".
Thus, the name Topeka means "a good place to dig potatoes".
The name was chosen because "[i]t was a novel name of Indian origin, euphonious [pleasing] of sound and simple".
Charles Sheldon and Charles Fox Parham, both important people in the history of American Christianity, were preachers in Topeka.
Many historians believe that the modern Pentecostalism movement started in Monroe's church in 1901.
Sheldon was a preacher in Topeka around the same time, who is famous for coming up with the phrase "What would Jesus do?"
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was a lawsuit that went before the United States Supreme Court in 1954.
Several families sued the public school board in Topeka for the right for black students to go to the same schools as white students.
The Supreme Court decided that school districts could not make students go to different schools because of their race.
Today, the government has a museum in Topeka about Brown v. Board of Education and civil rights for African-Americans.
Topeka is at , in north east Kansas.
It is at the intersection of I-70 and U.S. Highway 75.
It is the start of I-335 which is a part of the Kansas Turnpike running from Topeka to Emporia, Kansas.
Topeka is also on U.S. Highway 24 (about 50 miles east of Manhattan, Kansas) and U.S. Highway 40 (about 30 miles west of Lawrence, Kansas).
U.S.-40 is coincident with I-70 west from Topeka.
Of that,  is land and  is water.
Topeka has a humid continental climate (Köppen climate classification Dfa).
It has hot, somewhat humid summers and cool to cold, fairly dry winters.
It is in USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 6.
Over the course of a year, the monthly daily average temperature ranges from  in January to  in July.
The high temperature reaches  on average of 41.5 afternoons per year.
The high reaches  an average of 3.5 afternoons per year.
The low temperature falls below  on average of four mornings per year, and there are 21 afternoons per year that stay below freezing.
The general time of year for freezing temperatures is October 15 through April 17.
The area gets about  of precipitation during an average year.
The most being received in May and June—the April through June period averages 33 days of measurable precipitation.
Generally, the spring and summer months have the most rainfall.
Autumn and winter are fairly dry.
During a typical year the total amount of precipitation may be anywhere from .
Much of the rainfall is comes from thunderstorms.
These can be very bad.
They often have lightning, big hail, and sometimes tornadoes.
Winter snowfall averages almost .
Measurable (≥) snowfall occurs an average of 12.9 days per year, with at least one inch (0.025 metre) of snow being received on five of those days.
Snow depth of at least an inch happens an average of 20 days per year.
2010 census
C W Porubsky's Deli & Tavern's chili "has been a lure to north Topeka since 1951".
In 2014, Travel + Leisure said it was one of America's Best Chilis.
The Topeka Capital-Journal is a newspaper that is published every day.
The Topeka Metro News is a newspaper that is published twice per week.
Both newspapers have online versions (The Topeka Metro News - Online Edition and CJOnline).
1966 F5 tornado
Greater Topeka Chamber of Commerce
Kansas State Historical Society
Topeka City Map, KDOT
1854 establishments in Kansas Territory
County seats in Kansas
Baton Rouge is the capital and second-largest city of the U.S. state of Louisiana.
It has a humid subtropical climate (Cfa in the Koeppen climate classification).
1699 establishments
1690s establishments in North America
Augusta is the capital city of the U.S. state of Maine.
18,560 people live in Augusta.
Cities in Maine
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Saint Paul is the capital city of the U.S. state of Minnesota.
It is across the Mississippi River from Minneapolis.
When people talk about both cities, they call them the Twin Cities.
Well-known people from Saint Paul
F. Scott Fitzgerald, author
Darnella Frazier, civil rights activist
Saint Paul official city government website
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1822 establishments in the United States
1820s establishments in Mississippi
Jefferson City is the capital of the U.S. state of Missouri.
It is also county seat of Cole County.
(The Jefferson City metropolitan area includes all of Callaway and Cole counties.)
As of the 2010 census, the population was 43,079.
Jefferson City was named after Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States.
Jefferson City is on the northern edge of the Ozark Plateau on the southern side of the Missouri River near the geographic center of the state, in a region known as Mid-Missouri.
It is at the western edge of the Missouri Rhineland, one of the major wine-producing regions of the Midwest.
In pre-Columbian times, this region was home of an ancient people known only as the Mound Builders.
By the time European settlers began arriving, the Mound Builders had  vanished into history.
The contemporary indigenous peoples were called the Osage Indians.
When the Missouri Territory was organized in 1812, St. Louis was the seat of government.
St. Charles next served as the capital.
The new state legislature decided to build a new capital city in the middle of the state in 1821.
They named it after Thomas Jefferson, who was still alive.
A village was already there called Lohman's Landing.
For years the village was little more than a trading post located in the wilderness about midway between St. Louis and Kansas City.
In 1826 the Missouri legislature first met here and in 1839 the settlement was incorporated as a city.
Jefferson City was selected as the site for a state prison and, in  1836, the Missouri State Penitentiary was opened.
The prison was home to a number of infamous Americans, including: former heavyweight champion Sonny Liston, assassin James Earl Ray, and bank robber Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd.
During the American Civil War, Jefferson City was occupied by Union troops.
Many of the people in the state supported the Union, although Missouri's Little Dixie section along the river in western counties was strongly Confederate.
German immigrants created vineyards in small towns on either side of the Missouri River, especially on the north from Jefferson City east to Marthasville outside St. Louis.
Known as the Missouri Rhineland for its vineyards, first established by German immigrants in the mid-19th century, this area has become a part of the agricultural and tourist economy.
Jefferson City is located at  (38.572954, -92.189283).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which,  is land and  (3.61%) is water.
Jefferson City is served by the Jefferson City Public School District, which operates Jefferson City High School, Simonsen 9th Grade Center, Lewis and Clark Middle School and Thomas Jefferson Middle School, and eleven elementary schools.
The district is currently considering building a second high school.
There are 4 private elementary schools:  St. Joseph's Cathedral, St. Peter , Immaculate Conception , and Trinity Lutheran.
Calvary Lutheran, Helias Catholic, and Lighthouse Preparatory Academy are Jefferson City's private high schools.
Lincoln University is a public historically black university with open enrollment and certificate, associate, bachelor, and graduate programs.
Columbia College, Linn State Technical College, William Woods University, Metro Business College, and Merrell University also have locations in Jefferson City with varying degree levels and options.
Jefftran operates a public bus system year-round.
Jefferson City is one of four state capitols in United States that are not served by an interstate highway.
Only four other state capitols nationwide share in this oddity.
Interstate 70 passes by the city  to the north, in Columbia.
U.S. Highways in the city include U.S. Route 50, U.S. Route 54, and U.S. Route 63.
Also Route 179 and Route 94 run through the city, giving it four highways that intersect with I-70.
Jefferson City is also home to an Amtrak station.
Notable Citizens
James T. Blair, Jr. was the mayor of Jefferson City in 1947 and then later a governor of Missouri.
Lorenzo Greene Lincoln University faculty and civil rights pioneer
Jack S. Kilby was born in Jefferson City.
Cedric the Entertainer (Cedric Kyle) was born in Jefferson City.
William Rose (screenwriter) was born in Jefferson City.
http://www.jeffcitymo.org/  Jefferson City, MO (Official Webpage)
Jefferson City Convention and Visitor's Bureau
Cities in Missouri
Helena is the capital city of the U.S. state of Montana.
It is also the county seat of Lewis and Clark County.
About 28,000 people lived there in 2010.
Max Baucus, former U.S. Senator
Liz Claiborne, fashion designer
Mike Cooney, Lt.
Governor of Montana
Charles Donnelly, president of the Northern Pacific Railway
Myrna Loy, actress
Charley Pride, country music singer
City of Helena official website
Cities in Montana
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1860s establishments in Montana Territory
Carson City is the capital city of the American state of Nevada.
At the 2010 United States Census, Carson City had a population of 55,274.
Settlers who lived present-day Carson City named the area "Washoe", after the Washoe Native Americans who lived there.
John C. Frémont and his party of explorers were the first European Americans to visit the Carson City area in 1843.
Frémont named a river flowing through the valley Carson River for Christopher "Kit" Carson, who was a scout on Frémont's expedition.
When Nevada became a state in 1864 during the Civil War, Carson City was confirmed as Nevada's permanent capital.
Abraham Curry, the founder of Carson City, reserved an area equivalent to four city blocks (10 acres or 4.04 ha) at the center of the town for the future state capitol building.
When the Capitol building was built ten years later, it was located there.
The fourth session of the state legislature met in the still-incomplete building at the beginning of 1871.
Construction was completed by May 1, 1871.
Carson City's first bus system, called Jump Around Carson, opened in October 2005.
There is almost no ground public transportation to other cities.
Passenger train service stopped in 1948.
Greyhound Lines stopped bus service there in 2006.
Amtrak stopped their bus to Sacramento in 2008.
Greyhound and Amtrak have busses to Reno, Monday to Friday.
Carson Airport is in the northern part of the city.
Reno-Tahoe International Airport,  away, has domestic commercial flights.
Cities in Nevada
Nevada counties
19th-century establishments in Nevada
Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state of Texas.
It is the county seat of Travis County.
Austin is the 11th-largest city in the United States, and the 4th-largest in Texas.
Its population in 2016 was 931,830.
The University of Texas at Austin is located there.
Austin is frequently called the "Live Music Capital of the World".
Several Fortune 500 companies have their main offices (also known as the headquarters) and regional offices in Austin.
Austin was first called Waterloo in 1835.
In 1839, it was chosen to be the capital city of The Republic of Texas and named for Stephen F. Austin.
The University of Texas at Austin was founded in 1883.
Austin has a humid subtropical climate (Cfa in the Koeppen climate classification) with hot summers and mild winters.
The city rarely gets snow at all and frosts are infrequent.
Famous Destinations
-6th Street (Also known as Pecan Street): Known for various bars, including old fashioned saloons, dive bars, gay bars, etc.
Most of these bars host live music.
-Mount Bonnell: The highest point in Austin, TX.
Come here for romantic moments and beautiful nature in front of scenic vistas.
-Congress Ave.:
One of the main streets of the city.
Famous for the bat bridge which hosts millions of Mexican Free-Tail Bats.
South Congress Ave. (
Aka SOCO) is a famous tourist district with unique and odd shops, trailer park eats, and more live music.
Formula One has made an agreement with the city of Austin to host the Formula 1 United States Grand Prix in the city.
A new racetrack was built to host the race.
The United States Grand Prix began taking place in Austin since 2012.
is a city in the U.S. state of Vermont that serves as the state capital.
It is also the shire town (county seat) of Washington County.
As the capital of Vermont, Montpelier is the site of the Vermont State House, the seat of the legislative branch of Vermont government.
The Vermont State House has a golden dome.
The population was 7,855 at the 2010 census.
By population, it is the smallest state capital in the United States.
The Vermont History Museum and Vermont College of Fine Arts are in Montpelier.
City of Montpelier, Vermont
Kellogg-Hubbard Library
Central Vermont Chamber of Commerce
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Concord is the capital city of the U.S. state of New Hampshire.
The land which Concord now occupies along the banks of the Merrimack River was settled thousands of years ago by Native Americans.
The broad sweeps of the river valley, good soil for farming, and easy transportation on the Merrimack made the site of Concord equally inviting to English-speaking settlers in the eighteenth century.
Settled by immigrants from Massachusetts in 1725, the community grew in prominence during the eighteenth century.
Some of Concord's earliest houses remain today at the north end of Main Street.
In the years following the American Revolution, the City's central location made it a logical choice for the state capital, and in 1808 Concord was named the official seat of state government.
Today the 1819 State House is the oldest state capitol in which the legislative branches meet in their original chambers.
This area's first settlement in 1659 was named Penacook, for the Indian name Pannukog, meaning crooked place or bend in the river.
The first land grant was in 1725, and the town was incorporated as Rumford in 1733.
The name was changed to Concord in 1765 upon resolution of a bitter boundary dispute between Rumford and Bow.
Its central location was the logical choice for state capital, and Concord was so named in 1808.
The State House, built in 1818 and first occupied in 1819, is the oldest in continuous use in the country.
In 1853, the State granted Concord a city charter.
It was in Concord that the Abbotts built the famous Concord Coach, modeled after the coronation coach for King George III.
Granite quarrying has been another major industry, and Concord's quarries supplied granite for the US Library of Congress.
Concord was home to Franklin Pierce, 14th President of the United States, following his presidency.
Population Trends
Concord had the tenth largest numeric change in population, totaling 12,777 over 50 years, from 27,988 in 1950 to 40,765 in 2000.
The largest decennial percent change was a 22 percent increase between 1980 and 1990; all other decades increased by ten percent or less.
The 2005 Census estimate for Concord was 42,336 residents, which ranked third among New Hampshire's incorporated cities and towns.
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Trenton is the capital city of the U.S. state of New Jersey.
Trenton is in the middle part of New Jersey, along the Delaware River.
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1710s establishments in the Thirteen Colonies
18th-century establishments in New Jersey
Santa Fe (; Tewa: Ogha Po'oge, ) is the capital of the U.S. state of New Mexico.
It is the fourth-largest city in the state.
It is the seat of Santa Fe County.
Santa Fe (literally 'holy faith' in Spanish) had a population of 67,947 in the 2010 census.
It is the principal city of the Santa Fe, New Mexico Metropolitan Statistical Area which encompasses all of Santa Fe County and is part of the larger Santa Fe-Española Combined Statistical Area.
The city's full name when founded was "La Villa Real de la Santa Fé de San Francisco de Asís" ("The Royal Town of the Holy Faith of St. Francis of Assisi").
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 37.4 square miles (96.9 km2), of which, 37.3 square miles (96.7 km2) of it is land and 0.1 square miles (0.2 km2) of it (0.21%) is water.
Santa Fe has many world-class museums.
Many are around the historic downtown Plaza or close by:
New Mexico Museum of Art – collections of Southwestern Arts.
Institute of American Indian Arts Museum – Native American arts with political aspects.
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum – devoted to the work of O'Keeffe and others whom she influenced.
New Mexico History Museum – behind the historic Palace of the Governors, showcasing the history of New Mexico.
Site Santa Fe – A contemporary art space, at 1606 Paseo De Peralta.
Known as the forefront for contemporary art presentation in the Southwest.
Museum of International Folk Art – showcasing folk arts from around the world.
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture – exhibits Native American arts.
Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian – Native American art and history.
Museum of Spanish Colonial Art – Tradition arts from the Spanish-colonial era to contemporary times.
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17th-century establishments in New Spain
Albany ( ) is the capital city of the U.S. state of New York, the seat of Albany County, and the central city of New York's Capital District.
Roughly  north of New York City, Albany sits on the west bank of the Hudson River, about  south of its confluence with the Mohawk River.
Prior to the recession of the 1990s, Albany was home to two Fortune 500 companies: KeyBank and Fleet Bank.
Both banks have since moved or merged with other banks.
It is home to the AHL ice hockey team the Albany Devils.
The Empire State Plaza has many state agency office buildings.
It fills almost any view of Albany.
Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller and architect Wallace Harrison led its construction between 1965 and 1978.
The complex is a big example of late American modernism in architecture.
It remains a controversial building project both for displacing city residents and for its architectural style.
The most recognizable part of the complex is the Erastus Corning Tower.
The tower is the tallest building in New York outside of New York City.
The 19th-century New York State Capitol at the opposite (north) end of the plaza is the seat of the New York State Legislature and the home of the Governor of New York, currently Andrew Cuomo.
Albany's initial architecture incorporated many Dutch influences, followed soon after by those of the English.
The Quackenbush House, a Dutch Colonial brick mansion, was built c. 1736; Schuyler Mansion, a Georgian-style mansion, was built in 1765; and the oldest building currently standing in Albany is the 1728 Van Ostrande-Radliff House at 48 Hudson Avenue.
Albany's housing varies greatly, with mostly row houses in the older sections of town, closer to the river.
Housing type quickly changes as one travels westward, beginning with two-family homes of the late 19th century, and one-family homes built after World War II in the western end of the city.
Albany City Hall was opened in 1883.
The New York State Capitol was opened in 1899 (after 32 years of construction) at a cost of $25 million, making it the most expensive government building at the time.
Albany's Union Station, a major Beaux-Arts design, was under construction at the same time; it opened in 1900.
In 1912, the Beaux-Arts styled New York State Department of Education Building opened on Washington Avenue near the Capitol.
It has a classical exterior, which features a block-long white marble colonnade.
The 1920s brought the Art Deco movement, which is illustrated by the Home Savings Bank Building (1927) on North Pearl Street and the Alfred E. Smith Building (1930) on South Swan Street, two of Albany's tallest high-rises.
Architecture from the 1960s and 1970s is well represented in the city, especially at the W. Averell Harriman State Office Building Campus (1950s and 1960s) and on the uptown campus of the SUNY Albany college (1962–1971).
The state office campus was planned in the 1950s by governor W. Averell Harriman to offer more parking and easier access for state employees.
The uptown SUNY campus was built in the 1960s under Governor Rockefeller on the site of the city-owned Albany Country Club.
Straying from the popular open campus layout, noted American architect Edward Durell Stone designed the SUNY Albany campus from 1954-1956 with a centralized building layout with administrative and classroom buildings at center surrounded by four student housing towers.
The design called for much use of concrete and glass, and the style has slender, round-topped columns and pillars reminiscent of those at Lincoln Center in New York City.
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Raleigh (pronounced , ) is the capital and the second largest city in the state of North Carolina as well as the county seat of Wake County.
Raleigh is known as the "City of Oaks" for its many oak trees.
The area is also nicknamed "The Triangle".
Raleigh is part of the Research Triangle area, together with Durham and Chapel Hill.
The "Triangle" nickname began after the 1959 plan and construction of the Research Triangle Park, in Durham and Wake Counties.
It is in the middle of the three cities and their universities.
The Research Triangle area makes up the U.S. Census Bureau's Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Combined Statistical Area (CSA).
It had an estimated population of 2,037,430 in 2013.
Raleigh was started in 1770.
In 1788, it became North Carolina's state capital.
The first state fair happened in 1853 and has kept on happening.
Raleigh was not hurt by the Civil War.
It did not grow much after the Civil War.
In the early 1900s, Raleigh had streetcars, but they got rid of them later.
Raleigh got its first TV station in 1956.
In 1959, the Research Triangle Park was built.
This caused people to move to the area for the jobs.
In the late 1900s, Interstate 40 and Interstate 440 (freeways)were built, helping traffic.
Since the late 1900s, Raleigh has grown quickly.
November 28, 1988 tornado
On November 28, 1988, Raleigh was hit by a F4 tornado.
The tornado formed after a very warm late November day.
A line of thunderstorms that was spotted over the Charlotte area during the afternoon hours hit Raleigh just after 1:00 a.m. ET, however the National Weather Service (NWS) issued no tornado or severe thunderstorm watches for the area.
They believed the conditions had not support the right for a tornado.
There were two fatalities in the city of Raleigh, and four in total.
2011 tornado
Raleigh is in north-central North Carolina.
It is in a hilly area.
Raleigh has a mild climate.
The summers are hot, with an average high of about 90 °F (32 °C).
The winters are cool, with an average high of about 50 °F (10 °C).
It snows about twice a year with a total of six inches (15 centimeters).
Raleigh also gets around 45 inches of rain.
Raleigh has a lot of good transportation.
Some freeways are Interstate 40, I-440, and I-540.
Some highways are U.S. Route 1, 64, and 70, and N.C. highway 50.
Raleigh also has a Amtrak station and a big airport.
Raleigh has a lot of museums.
North Carolina State University is also in Raleigh.
Raleigh is pretty rich, but there are some poor areas.
The region also has a lot of suburban developments, but there are some crowded areas.
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Bismarck is the capital city of the U.S. state of North Dakota.
It is also the county seat of Burleigh County.
As of the census held in the year 2010, its population was 61,272.
The population of its metropolitan area was 108,779.
Bismarck was founded in 1872.
It has been North Dakota's capital since it gained statehood in 1889.
Bismarck is situated on the east bank of the Missouri River, directly across the river from Mandan.
The two cities make up the core of the Bismarck-Mandan Metropolitan Statistical Area.
The North Dakota State Capitol, the tallest building in the state, towers over the central part of Bismarck.
The state government employs more than 4,000 in the city.
As a hub of retail and health care, Bismarck is the economic center of a large portion of south-central North Dakota and north-central South Dakota.
County seats in North Dakota
1870s establishments in Dakota Territory
Columbus is the capital city and largest city of the U.S. state of Ohio.
It is in the middle of the state.
The Ohio State Buckeyes and Columbus Blue Jackets play there.
In 2010 there were 787,033 people.
Columbus is the third largest city in the American Midwest, and the fifteenth largest city in the United States of America.
The city has expanded and annexed portions of adjoining Delaware County and Fairfield County.
It is named for explorer Christopher Columbus.
The city was founded in 1812 at the confluence of the Scioto and Olentangy rivers.
It became Ohio's state capital in 1816.
The city has a diverse economy based on education, government, insurance, banking, fashion, defense, aviation, food, clothes, logistics, steel, energy, medical research, health care, hospitality, retail, and technology.
Columbus has many technology companies.
It has the world's largest private research and development foundation, the Battelle Memorial Institute; CAS, or Chemical Abstracts Service, the world's largest clearinghouse of chemical information; NetJets, the world's largest fractional ownership jet aircraft fleet; and The Ohio State University, the nation's largest campus.
In 2008, MarketWatch named Columbus as the 7th best place to do business in the nation.
In 2011, the city had five corporations named to the U.S. Fortune 500 list including Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company, American Electric Power, Limited Brands, Momentive Specialty Chemicals, and Big Lots.
Major foreign corporations operating or with divisions in the city include Germany-based Siemens and Roxane Laboratories, Finland-based Vaisala, Tomasco Mulciber Inc., and A Y Manufacturing, as well as Switzerland-based ABB Group and Mettler Toledo.
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Oklahoma City is the capital city of the U.S. state of Oklahoma, and the largest city in the state.
As of 2006, the population of the city was about 537,734.
In 1995, 168 people were killed by a truck bomb.
Oklahoma City has an NBA team called the Oklahoma City Thunder.
It is the county seat of Oklahoma County.
The city has a large Native American population.
County seats in Oklahoma
Casablanca, a city in Morocco
Casablanca (movie), a 1942 movie starring Humphrey Bogart, set in the city
Wichita is the largest city in the U.S. State of Kansas.
It is the county seat of Sedgwick County.
It is the 50th largest city in the United States.
In 2020, 397,532 people lived there.
Wichita is the main city of the Wichita metropolitan area; it had an estimated 644,888 people living there in 2018.
It is in Sedgwick County, which is in the south-central part of the state.
Wichita State University is in the city.
Archaeological evidence says that people have lived near the confluence of the Arkansas and Little Arkansas Rivers (where Wichita is) since 3000 B.C. In 1541, a Spanish trip led by explorer Francisco Vázquez de Coronado found the area populated by the Quivira (or Wichita) people.
Fighting with the Osage in the 1750s forced the Wichita people further south.
Before Americans came to live in the region, the area was part of the territory of the Kiowa people.
The area was part of France as part of Louisiana.
It was later bought by the United States with the Louisiana Purchase in 1803.
It became part of Kansas Territory in 1854.
It became part of the state of Kansas in 1861.
The Wichita came back in 1863.
They came back because they were forced to leave their land in Indian Territory by Confederate forces in the American Civil War.
The Wichita people created a settlement on the banks of the Little Arkansas River.
In 1868, trader James R. Mead created another trading post in the area.
Surveyor Darius Munger built a house to use as a hotel, community center, and post office.
Downtown Wichita is at  (37.688888, −97.336111).
Wichita is in south-central Kansas.
It is at the junction of Interstate 35 and U.S. Route 54.
It is part of the Midwestern United States.
It is  north of Oklahoma City,  southwest of Kansas City, and  east-southeast of Denver.
The city is on the Arkansas River.
It is near the western edge of the Flint Hills.
It is in the Wellington-McPherson Lowlands region of the Great Plains.
Wichita is in North America's humid subtropical climate area (Köppen Cfa).
Wichita usually has hot, humid summers and cold, dry winters.
Wichita is the biggest city in Kansas, and it is the 51st largest city in the United States.
It is racially more similar to the rest of the United States than any other major city.
Wichita is the main city of both the Wichita Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) and the Wichita-Winfield Combined Statistical Area (CSA).
The Wichita MSA includes Sedgwick County, Butler County, Harvey County, and Sumner County.
In 2010, 623,061 people lived there.
This would make it the 84th largest metropolitan area in the United States.
Wichita's biggest industrial sector is manufacturing.
Manufacturing was 21.6 percent of the employment in 2003.
Aircraft manufacturing has been the main part of the local economy for a long time.
It is so important, that can influence the economic health of the entire region.
Kansas gives tax breaks and other incentives to aircraft manufacturers.
Healthcare is Wichita's second-biggest industry.
It employs about 28,000 people in the area.
Since healthcare needs remain fairly consistent regardless of the economy, this field was not subject to the same pressures that affected other industries in the early 2000s.
The Kansas Spine Hospital opened in 2004.
A critical care tower at Wesley Medical Center also opened in 2004.
In July 2010, Via Christi Health, which is the largest provider of healthcare services in Kansas, opened a hospital that will serve the northwest area of Wichita.
Via Christi Hospital on St. Teresa is the system's fifth hospital to serve the Wichita community.
Wichita is a cultural center for Kansas.
It has several art museums and performing arts groups.
The Wichita Art Museum is the biggest art museum in Kansas.
It has over 7,000 works of art.
The Ulrich Museum of Art at Wichita State University is a modern and contemporary art museum.
It has over 6,300 works of art.
Music Theatre Wichita, Wichita Grand Opera, and the Wichita Symphony Orchestra perform often at the Century II Convention Hall.
It is downtown.
Concerts happen often by the schools of music at Wichita's two biggest universities.
Wichita has several professional, semi-professional, non-professional, and collegiate sports teams.
Professional teams include the Wichita Thunder ice hockey team, the Wichita Force indoor football team, and the Wichita Wind Surge Minor League Baseball team.
The city hosts the Air Capital Classic.
It is a professional golf tournament of the Web.com Tour.
It was first played in 1990.
According to Kansas law, Wichita is a city of the first class.
Since 1917, it has had a council-manager form of government.
Wichita is in Kansas's 4th U.S. Congressional District.
For the Kansas Legislature, Wichita is in the 16th, 25th32nd districts of the Kansas Senate.
It is in the 81st, 83rd101st, 103rd, and 105th districts of the Kansas House of Representatives.
Wichita Public Schools (USD 259) is the largest school district in Kansas.
It has over 50,000 students.
It has more than 90 schools in Wichita.
It includes 10 high schools, 16 middle schools, 61 elementary schools, and more than a dozen special schools and programs.
Three universities are in Wichita.
The biggest is Wichita State University (WSU).
WSU has more than 14,000 students.
It is the third-biggest university in Kansas.
WSU's main campus is in northeast Wichita.
They have other campuses around the Wichita area.
Friends University is a private Christian university.
It has its main campus in west Wichita.
Newman University is a private Catholic university.
It is also in west Wichita.
The Wichita Public Library is Wichita's library system.
It has a main facility.
It is called the Advanced Learning Library, and it is in Delano.
It also has six locations in other neighborhoods around Wichita.
The library has several free programs for the public.
It includes special events, technology training classes, and programs specifically for adults, children, and families.
In 2009, it had more than 1.3 million books and 2.2 million items total.
The Wichita Eagle is Wichita's major daily newspaper.
It started in 1872.
The Wichita Business Journal is a weekly newspaper that covers local business events and developments.
Several other newspapers and magazines, many of which focus on something specific, are also published in Wichita.
These include: The Community Voice, a weekly African American community newspaper; El Perico, a monthly Hispanic community newspaper; The Liberty Press, monthly LGBT news; Splurge!,
a monthly local fashion and lifestyle magazine; The Sunflower, the Wichita State University student newspaper.
The Wichita radio market includes Sedgwick County, Butler County, and Harvey County.
Six AM radio stations and many FM radio stations are in Wichita.
Wichita is the main city of the Wichita-Hutchinson, Kansas television market.
That market covers the western two-thirds of Kansas.
All of the market's network affiliates broadcast from Wichita.
The ABC, CBS, CW, FOX and NBC affiliates serve the wider market through networks of other stations.
The city also hosts a PBS member station, a Univision affiliate, and several low-power stations.
Wichita has had bad floods of the Arkansas River in 1877, 1904, 1916, 1923, 1944, 1951 and 1955.
In 1944, Wichita flooded 3 times in 11 days.
Because of the 1944 flood, Wichita built the Wichita-Valley Center Floodway in 1958.
It makes the water go around Wichita.
Westar Energy gives electricity.
Cox Communications and Spectrum offer cable television.
AT&T U-Verse offers IPTV.
Those three companies also offer home telephone and broadband internet service.
Kansas Gas Service provides natural gas.
Wichita Transit has 53 buses.
There are 18 bus routes in Wichita.
They say there are over 2 million trips per year (5,400 trips per day) on its routes.
Wichita Transit also has a paratransit service.
It has 320,800 passenger trips every year.
The Wichita Airport Authority manages the city's two main public airports.
The airports are Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport and Colonel James Jabara Airport.
Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport is in western Wichita.
It is the city's main airport.
It is also the biggest airport in Kansas.
Two Class I railroads, BNSF Railway and Union Pacific Railroad (UP), operate freight rail lines through Wichita.
The closest Amtrak station is in Newton.
It is  north.
Amtrak offers service on the Southwest Chief line between Los Angeles and Chicago.
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