My home town, Barnstaple in North Devon, England, is an old Medieval merchant town - it was a busy port exporting wool and as that trade fell away it became a centre of manufacture - lace, gloves, sail-cloth and fishing-nets; it had extensive potteries, tanneries, sawmills and foundries, and shipbuilding was also carried on until the early 20th C.
Sadly the river silted up and trade went to nearby Bideford and gradually most of the manufacturing has disappeared.
There are many Almshouses built by wealthy merchants, some lovely houses again built by these merchants - now listed so they will not be altered and have to be maintained in a good condition. Sadly nowadays the town is rather run down with many out-of-town shopping centres leaving empty shops on the high street which are filled with charity shops, coffee shops or Banks/Building Societies!
However, North Devon is a lovely area in which to live - we have the sea and the moors to explore and the climate on the whole is pleasant.

Jefferson City is the capital of the U.S. state of Missouri and the county seat of Cole County. A small portion of the city extends into Callaway County. It is the principal city of the Jefferson City metropolitan area, which encompasses the entirety of both counties. As of the 2010 census, the population was 43,079 making it the 15th largest city in Missouri. Jefferson City was named after Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States.

In 2013, Jefferson City was named America's "Most Beautiful" Small Town by Rand McNally.

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. The city is dominated by the domed Capitol that rises from a bluff overlooking the Missouri River to the north. Lewis and Clark passed beneath that bluff on their historic expedition upriver before Europeans established any settlement there

The second, third and fourth pictures are from the top of the Capital.

Goodday RIVKA Thanks for this challenge should be fun.

In the early 1900’s the federal government with drew land from the Wind River Reservation, opened it to homesteading and Riverton was born, this year the EPA a federal bureaucracy (note non-elected officials) decided that never happened. Placing Riverton back on the reservation the lawsuits have just started, golly I love politics.

For those who are interested.

http://www.rivertonwy.gov/
duckduckgo or google Wind River Reservation
duckduckgo or google Fremont County Wyoming

A few photos from the archives may get some new ones.

My daughter visiting last Thanksgiving this sign is located west of Riverton so if you are driving in from Yellowstone or Teton parks you pass it.

Why does it say Rendezvous City the site of the last fur trading Rendezvous in the Wind River Mountains is here