Sentences with phrase «many early settlers»

That acted as inspiration for early settlers to North America.

Cherokee Indians and early settlers knew knew Fort Wayne as the village of Willstown until it was given its current name after Major John Payne.

Early settlers often used hemp for rope, clothing, sailcloth, and oil applications.

Check your history Linda, much of the land initially utilized by the early settlers in both Plymouth and Jamestown were unoccuppied by the locals because of swampy, fly - ridden conditions.

The Puritans and some other early settlers of America tried not to employ visual representations of God, although they surely must have had some mental image of God or Jesus as they spoke to him in prayer.

Early settlers brought this song to America originally from France, and then also from England.

Also note that early settlers in the Americas also kept Irish slaves initially... it wasn't just blacks.

Freedom to worship the Christian God is what those early settlers and Founding Fathers were speaking of.

The early settlers came here to get away from persecution and discrimination from state - sponsored religion in Europe.

Read books that didn't come from the Texas School Board and you'll see that the consti.tution has separation of church and state — because of the religious intolerance the early settlers has experienced in Europe.

All four of my family names» Nuechterlein and Hubinger on my father's side, List and Strieter on my mother's» are included in the roster of the earliest settlers.

The early settlers wiped out a bunch of native americans and i'm sure they celebrated about that afterwards.

This part of the Constitution allowed the Early Settlers an escape from the Church of England and to follow their own interpretations of the Bible.

ALL the early settlers were christians, and the overwhelming christian heritage of this country is indisputable.

A lot of the earlier settlers came here to excape persecution from Christian Churches in Europe — they just couldn't them from following them here!

Horseradish was brought to North America by early settlers from Europe who began cultivating it in the East Coast colonies.

Owner Skip Foppiano's great - grandparents were among the earliest settlers in the area that is now Waterloo in central California, and they planted one of the first walnut orchards in the region.

As a result, this area is unique and consists of rolling hills and valleys that the early settlers of Wisconsin recognized as having rich soil for grass and crops.

«Within fourteen days of their arrival,» wrote Renata Coetzee in The South African Culinary Tradition, «these early settlers had laid out a vegetable garden.»

This resulted in a unique geographical area of rolling hills and valleys that the early settlers of Wisconsin recognized as having rich soil for grass and crops.

Our early settlers used it to leaven pancakes and biscuits; today, we enjoy sourdough starter in treats as diverse as chocolate cake and pizza, where we value it for its rich, complex flavor as much as its ability to make things rise.

The company's roots can be traced to the early settlers of the Smoky Mountains.

Naper Settlement has focused on its uses in the 1800s as a functional craft of early settlers.

Water power provided the early settlers with not only transportation, but also the ability to mill corn and other grains, to saw and shape wood from the forests, and to loom textiles from wool, cotton and flax.

«Through exploration of historical artifacts, images, and film, we gain a greater understanding of and appreciation for the earliest settlers of New Netherland.

Among early settlers were the Hayt family, which built a farm called The Elm in 1720.

Originally constructed in the 1820's, the earliest settlers of Le Roy built the Creekside from black Marcellus shale dug from the Oatka Creek bed.

The cemetery holds the remains of some of the earliest settlers of Queens and, as an important historical reminder of our borough's past, should be designated an official NYC landmark.

This week, two major studies of the DNA of living and ancient people try to settle the big questions about the early settlers: who they were, when they came, and how many waves arrived.

Early settlers may have floated down the Pacific Coast in canoes before heading 2,000 kilometers east to the remote rock - shelter, or they might have taken an inland route from North America, Denis Vialou of the National Museum of Natural History in Paris and colleagues report in the August Antiquity.

The leaves of rooibos, translated from Afrikaans as «red bush,» are sipped in ruby - hued teas around the world but were previously sought by early settlers for their capacity to heal skin and reduce inflammation.

ATLANTA — Iceland's «woman in blue,» the partial skeleton of a young woman found in 1938 in a grave with Viking - era objects, was a child of some of the island's earliest settlers, researchers reported April 14 at the annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.

EARLY ICELANDER A young woman now determined to have been one of Iceland's earliest settlers was found in 1938 in a grave with various Viking - era objects, including this pair of brooches.

But no dog remains have been found in northwestern North America, where the earliest settlers crossing a land bridge from Asia would have entered the New World.

That's the conclusion of linguists and a geographer, who have together identified 18 Aboriginal stories — many of which were transcribed by early settlers before the tribes that told them succumbed to murderous and disease - spreading immigrants from afar — that they say accurately described geographical features that predated the last post-ice age rising of the seas.

They argued it would be little different from early settlers who left Europe for North America with little hope of return.

Many archeologists believe South America's early settlers traveled from the west coast inland toward the Andean Mountains, avoiding the desert's dry center by walking along its wetter edges.

Marco Pfeiffer and his colleagues scan the arid Atacama Desert, where freshwater lakes and wetlands once provided refuge to South America's early settlers.

Ironically, early settlers brought domesticated turkeys with them — these were the descendants of Mesoamerican poultry that had been introduced to Europe by earlier explorers.

Early settlers may have floated down the Pacific Coast in canoes before heading 2,000 kilometers east to the remote rock shelter, or they might have taken an inland route from North America, archaeologist Denis Vialou of the National Museum of Natural History in Paris and his colleagues report in the August Antiquity.

To commemorate the early settlers» spirit of adventure by letting the tag fly in the company of latterday adventurers: astronauts.

One narrative has it that about 13,000 years ago a comet blasted North America, wiping out the continent's megafauna — as well as its early settlers.

By creating such a home base, those early settlers changed the ecosystem.

Red wolves and eastern wolves probably first appeared when early settlers hunted gray wolves in the eastern United States, says Doug Smith.

Scientists want to know if this is because early settlers were replaced by ancestors of modern Native Americans, or if the differences are the result of evolutionary processes.

Groundbreaking DNA research has shone new light on the early origins of Britain's early settlers, reconstructing in unprecedented detail the face of Cheddar Man, the nation's oldest near - complete skeleton, revealing that he had much darker features than was previously assumed.

Sweet potatoes, once the major source of nourishment for Native Americans and early settlers, are rich in potassium, calcium and vitamins A and C. They're plentiful, inexpensive and versatile.

Interesting facts: The native American Indians discovered it and showed the early settlers how to extract it.

In another era, Native Americans and the early settlers gathered the plant and its root to treat such ailments as hemorrhoids, stomachaches, sore throat, and bruises.

When early settlers introduced European currant into North America, in the late 1700's, they realized that native Americans have been harvesting a local variety of currant from the wild for centuries, to use the berries in medicines and dyes.