Wayne Bailey, a political-science professor at Stetson University in DeLand, the county seat.
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In Perry County, which Perryville is the county seat, the number working in manufacturing is roughly one in five.
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He likens his construction techniques such as interlocking corner notches and cantilevered roofs to those of frontiersman Daniel Boone, namesake of the county seat.
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The county seat of Prineville (pop. 5, 250) is a "detour down a back road, " to lift a line from a country ballad popular there.
In the county seat, it's believed half the population perished.
The play was called "With the Future on the Line, " and it told the story of how three Western Minnesota River Valley communities, in the late 1800s, competed to become the county seat.
Village and township officials receive salaries in relation to the peasant income they report, and reporting a rosy picture is the best chance open to a township official to get a coveted job in the county seat.
It recruited twenty-four teacher coaches for the twenty-seven schools in the semi-rural district. (Charlottesville is the county seat, but it runs a separate school district.) Many teacher-coaching programs concentrate on newer teachers, and this one is no exception.
The Democrats contended that many poor and elderly have no driver's licenses and cannot afford the fees to obtain their birth certificates, nor can they afford transportation to the county seat before each election to file an affidavit of indigency, the only other way that they can vote.
"It could be a real good thing, " says 23-year-old Frank Johnson, who lives in the Pope County seat of Golconda, a shrinking Ohio River town of 670.
At Lancaster Central Market, Amish woman Lydia King said she has seen differences even within her 30-family church group in New Providence, farmland about 12 miles from the busy county seat.
In the town of Lushan, seat of the county government, the damage was less widespread, and streets were filled with excavators and vehicles carrying paramilitary police to help with the rescue efforts.
"This really is a double-edged sword, " says Ron Duncan, Johnson County's economic development director, standing on a corner in downtown Vienna, the once-bustling county seat that now has just a handful of businesses and government offices.
The Tories won 58 of the 98 seats, the Liberal Democrats 27, independents eight, Labour four and UKIP won its first seat in the county.
And in Orange County, the seat of Mr Reagan's counter-revolution, less than half of all registered voters are Republican.
Flagstaff is about 150 miles north of Phoenix, the seat of Maricopa County.
It's the seat of Humphreys County, still one of the poorest counties in one of the poorest states in the United States.
Dynes, 41, from Bree, Castleblayney, County Monaghan, was driving the vehicle and Cavlan, from Circular Road, Dungannon, County Tyrone, was sitting in the passenger seat.
Giddings, Lee's county seat, is the kind of place where the courthouse bell tower rings every hour and the most important event in the world is Friday night's high school football game.
Kent Clizbe has a warning for voters in the primary Tuesday to fill the Virginia House of Delegates' newly created 87th District seat in Loudoun County: Caveat emptor - let the buyer or, in this case, the electorate, beware.
After growing up in the 1960s in Charles City, Iowa, a rural county seat known for its tornadoes and tractor factory (now a vacant site), brothers Charley and Pete Thomson were happy to move on.
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One of those gains was the seat of the Liberal Democrat party leader on Staffordshire County Council, Christina Jebb.
Mr Adams is rumoured to be considering standing for a seat in the Irish parliament (the Dail) in County Louth, just south of the border with Northern Ireland.
The Conservative Party has retained control of Dorset County Council, while the UK Independence Party (UKIP) has won its first ever seat.
Designated a county constituency and containing a great deal more territory than just the ancient city, this seat was drawn to be identical to the City of Durham local government unit and its name distinguishes it from the six other seats in County Durham.
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It has accepted a provisional offer from Suffolk County Council to give it a nine-seat minibus, which could be used to shuttle passengers along the High Street.
Republicans took control of the Virginia Assembly (giving them control over both houses of the Legislature), won a special election in a GOP open seat in the Washington State House (to return the body to deadlock), and won the Erie County (New York) executive's race.
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