Ignored bits

I was thinking about my setting today and the recent posts on mills in
SJ.  Mills tend to be pretty ignored in most campaign settings I've
seen, especially compared to their real historical
significance/importance to an area.  So, what other major features tend
to get left out?  To start the discussion here's some of my
observations.

Here's what's "usual" in most (A)D&D towns I've seen:

Inn
Tavern (may be part of Inn)
General Store
Stable (usually attached to Inn or General Store)
Smithy (usually one or a few smiths seem to do everything, from armor
to horseshoes, differentiation seems to only occur when the smithy is
supposed to be unique in some way, such as a superior swordsmith or
inferior armorer)
Residence (anyplace the locals live that's not a business)
Farm or Mine (some settings have both but most assume a town relies on
one or the other as its primary source of livelihood)
Castle/Tower/Fortress/City Wall/Keep (or a combination, if there's a
local seat of government it's usually here or at the church)
Docks (only if on water, obviously)
Shrine/Temple/Cathedral/Holy Grove/etc.

Less commonly there may be:
Leatherworker
Festhall (when different from a tavern or inn, note the term festhall
is from FR and includes cathouses and other places of revelry)
Barracks (when not part of wall, keep, etc.)
Jail (when not part of wall, keep, etc. or attached to barracks)
Shipyards (truthfully, I usually only see this in SJ settings but I
don't have many aquatic settings)

Almost unknown:
Ranches (though farm is often a catch-all term that covers these)
Mills
Breweries
Bowyer/Fletcher
Restaurant (that's not a tavern, though some inns include these more so
than a tavern, for instance the Inn of the Last Home in DL)
Instrument Makers (with so many bards now...)
...?




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