Harrisburg quickly became a flourishing village serving as a stagecoach stop, situated at the junction of roads between Canton, Alliance, Cleveland and Pittsburgh.

It has a population of 127, the smallest in the District, although at the time of the Domesday Book it had a flourishing village with its own market and fair.

In 1841 Dangriga, the Garifuna's largest settlement, was a flourishing village.

New Richmond was once the largest and most flourishing village in Clermont County.

By 1839, when the population was 1,074, it was described as "a beautiful farming town," with "a pleasant and flourishing village."

It was a flourishing village during the Jaina period from the 7th to 9th century AD.

This brought immigrants from Northern Ireland and the New Statistical Account of Scotland described Thornliebank as "a very flourishing village where, thirty years ago, three families did not exist".

The same thing occurs on the road to Shannonville, a small but flourishing village on the Kingston road, nine miles east of Belleville.

By 1842 the local paper was reporting that the 'formerly flourishing village', which used to stable 2,000 horses, was suffering a 'general depreciation of property'.

When the Romans arrived, in the first half of the 2nd century BC, Conímbriga was a flourishing village.