Definition of "town-site" []

• The site of a town; specifically, a tract of land set apart to be occupied by a town; such a tract surveyed and laid out with streets, etc., for this purpose. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "But Daylight smiled, and sold out the remainder of his town-site holdings."
• "Jack Kearns 'scow, laden with the sawmill from Lake Linderman, tied up at Sixty Mile, Daylight bundled his outfit and dogs on board, turned his town-site application over to Elijah to be filed, and the same day was landed at the mouth of Indian River."
• "It was before Smoke Bellew staked the farcical town-site of Tra-Lee, made the historic corner of eggs that nearly broke Swiftwater Bill's bank account, or won the dog-team race down the Yukon for an even million dollars, that he and Shorty parted company on the Upper"