Sentences with phrase «when early settlers»

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.

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

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All five buildings display information and artifacts of Arlington Heights from as early as the 1830s, when settlers founded the village.

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.

The term «free state» dates back to South Africa's early history when, for almost 150 years, the white settlers, who lived between the Vaal and Orange rivers in an area they called the Orange Free State, were independent of British rule.

A permanent installation with rotating textiles, this gallery presents life in Vermont from the time when the earliest European settlers arrived in 1761 with only the bare necessities to the early 1800s when Vermont craftsmen achieved a level of sophistication rivaling Boston and New York.

«They date from a time when the natural environment played havoc with early European settlers as they tried to tame the natural landscape,» Mrs Schumann said.

There are few surviving remnants of those earliest days in American history, when European settlers arrived to the lands of the New World.

White settlers first arrived in the early 1800's when fur trading posts were founded in the area.

The earliest settlers came to Longview during the early 1850s, and it was primarily farmland until 1918, when lumber baron Robert A. Long moved operations here.

The history of Englewood begins when gold was discovered on what came to be called Little Dry Creek by William Green Russell, an early settler of the high plains, in 1858.