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.
"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.
In the county seat, it's believed half the population perished.
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.
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.
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.
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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"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.
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.
Graham Marsh, who lost his Lincolnshire county council seat by 58 votes, urged his Conservative colleagues to eject Mr Cameron as party leader.
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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.
That same fall, Chris Heagarty, a Democratic lawyer, ran for a legislative seat in Wake County, which includes Raleigh, where Pope lives.
It's the seat of Humphreys County, still one of the poorest counties in one of the poorest states in the United States.
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.
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.
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.
In his first political campaign for a seat as a circuit county judge, McCarthy published campaign literature falsely claiming that his opponent was 73, senile and guilty of financial corruption despite knowing that the gentleman was 66, in full control of his mental faculties and had never done anything that had so much as a whiff of corruption.
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.
Andrews, first elected to Congress in 1990, was a Camden County freeholder who ran for an open House seat when then-incumbent Jim Florio (D) ran for governor.
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.
After delivering pro forma eulogies for Mr. Rubio, Democrats in Sacramento chose Kern County supervisor Leticia Perez to run for his vacated seat.
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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.
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