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Rabaul (/ r ɑː ˈ b aʊ l /) is a township in the East New Britain province of Papua New Guinea, on the island of New Britain. It lies about 600 kilometres to the east of the island of New Guinea. Rabaul was the provincial capital and most important settlement in the province until it was destroyed in 1994 by falling ash from a volcanic ...
New Britain was settled in 1687 and incorporated as a new parish as the New Britain Society in 1754. [6] Chartered in 1850 as a township and in 1871 as a city, New Britain had separated from the nearby towns of Farmington and Berlin, Connecticut. A consolidation charter was adopted in 1905.
New Britain was incorporated as a city in 1871. [2] The city's prosperity continued until after World War II, when shifts in transportation and living patterns led to a decline in the downtown area. It was damaged by several major fires in the early 1940, and construction of the access highways prompted a population exodus in the 1950s and ...
The City Hall-Monument District encompasses the city hall complex and central municipal park of New Britain, Connecticut.A prominent part of the city's downtown business district, the city hall is an architecturally distinguished former hotel, while the park includes a substantial Beaux Arts Civil War memorial.
The earliest cities (Latin: civitas) in Britain were the fortified settlements organised by the Romans as capitals of the Celtic tribes under Roman rule.The British clerics of the early Middle Ages later preserved a traditional list of the "28 Cities" (Old Welsh: cair) which was mentioned in De Excidio Britanniae [c] and Historia Brittonum.
The New Britain campaign was a World War II campaign fought between Allied and Imperial Japanese forces.The campaign was initiated by the Allies in late 1943 as part of a major offensive which aimed to neutralise the important Japanese base at Rabaul, the capital of New Britain, and was conducted in two phases between December 1943 and the end of the war in August 1945.
Downtown New Britain is a bus rapid transit station and the terminus of the CTfastrak line, located just south of Route 72 off Columbus Boulevard and Main Street in New Britain, Connecticut. It opened with the line on March 28, 2015. [ 1 ]
Route 174 begins as East Main Street at an intersection with Route 71 in downtown New Britain, just north of the junction of Routes 9 and 72.It heads east and immediately crosses over southbound Route 9 and under northbound Route 9 without a direct interchange, although access from southbound Route 9 to Route 174 is possible (via Route 9's Exit 28A).