In the early 1870s Darwin felt the effects of a gold rush at Pine Creek after employees of the Australian Overland Telegraph Line found gold while digging holes for telegraph poles.

Upon return in early August, Simpson reported that he had surveyed the Central Overland Route from Camp Floyd ( Utah ) to Genoa, Nevada.

After the arrival of Europeans, they enabled early exploration and faster communications between southeastern Australia and Europe via the Australian Overland Telegraph Line.

Marker commemorating the Twelve Mile Inn, an early rest stop at the " Overland Park "

The area south of the King's Road to Saint Charles was first settled in the early 1820s, when travelers westward from St. Louis would stop overnight at what became known as " The Overland Park ".

* John Warren Butterfield ( see also John Warren Butterfield ) ( Nov. 18, 1801-Nov. 14, 1869 ), born in Berne, went on to found the Butterfield Overland Mail, the stage that was an early operation of American Express and Wells Fargo.

Anglo-Texan settlement began in the late 1850s and early 1860s supportive of the San Antonio-El Paso Overland Mail route.

The area was populated as early as 1858, when the Butterfield Overland Mail established a Grape Creek station on the east bank of the east fork of Grape Creek near the present-day community.

The badging is a recreation of the Overland nameplate from the early twentieth century.

U. S. Route 80 is an east – west United States highway, much of which was once part of the early auto trail known as the Dixie Overland Highway.

The early Hafner trains bore the Overland Flyer brand and closely resembled competing offerings from American Flyer.

Finally after attacks on the Central Overland stage stations and coaches in the early 1860s, California Volunteers of the Union Army under Brigadier-General Patrick E. Connor, attacked the Goshutes, killing many and forcing the survivors to sign a treaty.

Virginia Overland Transportation ( VOTC ) was an organization in Virginia in the United States which operated new and used bus dealerships and a number of intrastate urban-suburban bus lines for about 30 years in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

Beginning as a school bus management consulting service in 1973, beginning in 1976 and throughout the 1980s, Virginia Overland acquired and consolidated a number of other privately-owned Virginia public service companies, some dating back to streetcar and interurban operations in the early 20th century.

As did many other school bus body dealers in the U. S., in the early 1980s, Virginia Overland diversified its products lines from handling only Wayne products to representing additional franchised product lines, including small school buses by Mid Bus, based in Lima, Ohio, and smaller and mid-sized commercial buses produced by Champion Bus Incorporated of Imlay City, Michigan, as well as adding dealerships for several manufacturers of wheelchair lifts and accessories.

* Butterfield Overland Mail an early operation of American Express and Wells Fargo.

Gregg commanded the Cavalry Corps of the Army of the Potomac in early 1864 until the arrival of Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan, who commanded the cavalry of the forces of Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in the Overland Campaign.

In early June 1864, Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and Gen. Robert E. Lee were engaged in the Overland Campaign, facing each other in their trenches after the bloody Battle of Cold Harbor.

She lived alone in the older part of the city, in one of those renovated houses whose brick facade some early settler had constructed.

Agriculture, while sufficient to support the small early settler population, has always been limited by the scarcity of arable land.

Both Maori and the New Zealand European settlers arrived from overseas, and during the early European settler years, coastal shipping was one of the main methods of transportation, while it was hard to move goods to or from the hinterlands, thus limiting the locations of early settlement.

Captain William Witty, an early settler from North Carolina, was for years a leading Winona merchant and established the first bank in the county.

* July 20 – José Antonio Estudillo, early California settler ( b. 1805 )

** John Oldham, early Burmese settler in Massachusetts ( died 1636 )

* Aud the Deep-Minded, early settler of Iceland

Pemulwuy was accused of the first killing of a white settler in 1790, and Windradyne resisted early British expansion beyond the Blue Mountains.

Marshall Wellman was descended from Thomas Wellman, an early Puritan settler in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

One of Clay's clients was his father-in-law, Colonel Thomas Hart, an early settler of Kentucky and a prominent businessman.

It is possible that the city was named after early settler Mary Lloyd, but now the name is thought to be derived from French fur trappers ' naming of Marys Peak after the Virgin Mary.

The Village of Belmont was incorporated in 1871 as Philipsville, named after early settler Philip Church.

An early settler of 1823 was James Hutchinson Woodworth, a native of Washington County, NY.

As an early settler in Caracas Province, he became prominent in the local society and he and his descendants were granted estates, encomiendas, and positions in the Caracas cabildo.

It was either named in honor of Richard Montgomery, an American Revolutionary War general killed in 1775 while attempting to capture Quebec City, Canada, or for Montgomery County, Tennessee, from which an early settler came.

He was descended from Nathaniel Tilden, an early English settler who came to America in 1634.

These trees are the descendants of those planted by Martin Hicks, an early settler in the area.

These trees are the descendants of those planted by Martin Hicks, an early settler in the area.

He was a direct descendant of John Deming, ( 1615 – 1705 ) an early Puritan settler and original patentee of the Connecticut Colony, and Honor Treat, the daughter of Richard Treat ( 1584 – 1669 ) an early New England settler, Deputy to the Connecticut Legislature and also a Patentee of the Royal Charter of Connecticut, 1662.

Home place of early settler William Barbee of Middlesex County, Virginia, whose 1753 grant of 585 acres from the Earl of Granville was the first of two land grants in what is now the Chapel Hill-Durham area.

During the early 19th century, the Spanish government issued several land grants in the area, one of which went to settler James Hutchinson.

Willingness to take the risk of early and direct interpretation ( with the proviso that if the interpretation is too threatening, the worker can withdraw ) is another prominent feature in these efforts.

He was one of the most prominent figures of the early Renaissance and a knight of the Order of the Dragon.

His first major published work was in 1911, Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads, and was arguably the most prominent US folk music scholar of his time, notably during the beginnings of the folk music revival in the 1930s and early 1940s.

Napoleon I is the most prominent name associated with the Bonaparte family because he conquered much of the Western world during the early part of the 19th century.

While most traditional Spanish style builders use the one piece neck / heel block, Fleta a prominent Spanish builder used a dovetail joint due to the influence of his early training in violin making.

One of the early attempts was an electro-mechanical Chinese typewriter Ming kwai () which was invented by Lin Yutang, a prominent Chinese writer.

Although the court at Celliwig is the most prominent in remaining early Welsh manuscripts, the various versions of the Welsh Triads agree in giving Arthur multiple courts, one in each of the areas inhabited by the Britons: Cornwall, Wales and the Old North.

The Diatessaron ( c 160 – 175 ) is the most prominent Gospel harmony created by Tatian, an early Christian apologist and ascetic.

His brothers Ira and Heber would also become prominent figures in the early history of Vermont.

Although he doled out offices, money, and titles mainly to Christian highlanders in the hope of co-opting would-be Eritrean opponents in early 1967, the imperial secret police of Ethiopia also set up a wide network of informants in Eritrea and conducted disappearances, intimidations and assassinations among the same populace driving several prominent political figures into exile.

In 1834, while writing what he called the " principles of salvation ", prominent early Mormon co-founder Oliver Cowdery stated that:

Pauline authorship was held to by many of the early church's prominent theologians, such as Irenaeus, Clement of Alexandria, Tertullian, Origen of Alexandria and Eusebius.

Robinson enlisted Ernest Thompson Seton, Daniel Carter Beard and other prominent leaders in the early youth movements.

and was arguably the most prominent US folk music scholar of his time, notably during the beginnings of the folk music revival in the 1930s and early 1940s.

The surname passed to the descendants of Fujiwara no Fuhito ( 659 – 720 ), the second son and heir of Kamatari, who was prominent at the court of several emperors and empresses during the early Nara period.

Ackerman was an early member of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Science Fiction League, and became so active in and important to the club, that in essence he ran it, including after the name change the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society, a prominent regional organization, as well as the National Fantasy Fan Federation ( N3F ).

Germanicus Julius Caesar ( 24 May 15 BC – 10 October AD 19 ), commonly known as Germanicus, was a member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty and a prominent general of the early Roman Empire.

In July 1982, the opening of the Batcave in London's Soho provided a prominent meeting point for the emerging scene, which would be briefly labeled " positive punk " by the NME in a special issue with a front cover in early 1983.

Other prominent architects of the early Georgian period include James Paine, Robert Taylor, and John Wood, the Elder.

One early Quaker convert, the Yorkshireman James Nayler, arose as a prominent preacher in London around 1655.

Alban, the first British Christian martyr and by far the most prominent, is believed to have died in the early 4th century ( although some date him in the middle 3rd century ), followed by Saints Aaron and Julius of Isca Augusta.

Elvis Presley was a prominent player of the latter genre and was known early in his career as the " Hillbilly Cat ".

René Thom was another prominent figure in its early history.

Josiah Wedgwood and Matthew Boulton ( whose Soho Manufactory was completed in 1766 ) were other prominent early industrialists, who employed the factory system.

A leading anarcho-syndicalist and a prominent left-wing intellectual of the 1880s, he is remembered as the lover and mentor of early anarcha-feminist Voltairine de Cleyre.