Originally, the county was mostly swampland, but more land became available for farming as the marshes were cleared and drained.

Originally solely a farming community, a lumber mill opened in 1866.

Originally, farming operations on the Home grounds included the area that is now Chambers Park.

Originally, it was a small farming community.

Originally a rural Irish farming community, Burnsville became the tenth largest Minnesotan city in the 2000 Census following the construction of Interstate 35.

Mont Vernon's general history follows that of many towns in this region: Originally settled for agriculture, its farms were hard hit after the Civil War when railroads opened up better farming land in the Midwest.

Originally a farming community, suburban settlement started in the 1930s with improved road access.

Originally a farming community, Colts Neck has long been known for its large number of equestrian farms.

Originally a farming community, the town of Wales is documented through profiles of its churches, civic organizations, businesses, and individual citizens.

Originally established in the early 19th century as an outpost and stop on the stage line that ran between Salisbury, North Carolina, and Danville, Virginia, called Wrights Crossroads, the Reidsville community grew from a single home and inn owned by the family of Reuben Reid ( a local farmer, businessman, and justice of the peace who was the father of David S. Reid ) into a thriving farming community primarily supporting tobacco production and cigarette manufacturing.

Originally a farming community, today Cheviot is a residential suburb of Cincinnati.

Originally a farming and railroad community, Afton is located on the historic U. S. Route 66 in Oklahoma.

Originally part of the rural surroundings of the Washington, D. C. area, the town of Herndon developed into a hub of dairy farming and vacationing for area residents, aided by its presence along the Alexandria, Loudoun and Hampshire Railroad ( later to become the Washington and Old Dominion ( W & OD ) Railroad ).

Originally the village was a place for tradesmen and farming, but currently Copmanthorpe is a functional commuter village, with two churches, a post-office, a butchers, a library, a coffee shop, newsagents, two hair dressers, pharmacy, a small food shop, one pub, and several takeaways.

Originally these were farming, road and river, later textiles, railway and canal, and now light industry, motorway and airport.

Originally there were six Bäuert ( farming collectives ) among the villages and hamlets in the valley.

Originally an agricultural area noted for dairy farming, domestic spinning and weaving led to a considerable silk and, in the 20th century, cotton industry.

Originally home to about 20 tile and brick manufactories and 10 flour and feed mills, the city today produces a wide variety of products ranging from cement to automobile parts, refined sugar to dairy products, textiles to computer parts, and more recently, poultry through chicken farming.

Originally based on real-life farming neighbors in Washington state, United States, Ma and Pa Kettle were created by Betty MacDonald in whose 1945 best-selling novel, The Egg and I, they appeared.

Originally owned by a farming family, the Birds, it was known locally as " Bird's Paddock ".

Originally it was a site of farming by the Sparke family.

Originally referring to a way of adapting farming techniques to local conditions, dochakuka evolved into a marketing strategy when Japanese businessmen adopted it in the 1980s.

Originally founded by Anglo-Saxons, the town grew from the eighteenth century around coal mining and farming on reclaimed marshland.

Originally, library advocacy was centred on the library itself, but current trends show libraries positioning themselves to demonstrate they provide " economic value to the community.

Originally designed by Alexander Jackson Davis in 1839 as part of the New York Lunatic Asylum, the national landmark and LEED Silver green building is now a high-end apartment community.

Originally, they formed a community by themselves and most of them were Saivite non-Brahmins.

Originally, they formed a community by themselves and most of them were Shaivite non-Brahmins.

Originally, the language of the bill mentioned only " Hmong " people, intending to include the entire community.

Originally the town focused around the Roman Catholic community that settled near a regular local market frequented by the population of the region on the lower reaches of the river.

Originally known as McGill's Hill, the community began attracting settlers following the conclusion of the Creek War.

File: Charles T. Porch Center Alexander City, Alabama. JPG | Originally built as the city post office, the Charles T. Porch Center is now used as a city community center.

Originally situated at Fort Wrigley, the community relocated to its present location in 1965, because it was more easily accessible.

Originally founded in 1869 as the community of Todos Santos by Salvio Pacheco, the name was changed to Concord within months.

Originally an area called Port Dixie, the town " sprang up out of the woods " in 1943-1944 as a community of 160 houses to be used as housing for military officers by developer Clifford Meigs.

Originally called Double Branch for the area's twin creeks, the community was named for the Methodist chapel that stood on the northwest corner of SR 54 and Boyette Road.

Originally a logging community whose last sawmill closed in 1977, McCall is now an all-season tourist destination for outdoor recreation.

Originally naming it Newark Station, ( not to be confused with nearby Newark ), he and Wentworth worked extensively to create the community and also to get the railroad stop created.

Originally the community was called ' Horse Creek ', which was an improvement from the nearby ' Dead Horse Creek ' ( where a dead horse was found in the creek Southwest of town ), but the petition for a Post Office sent to the postmaster in Springfield, Illinois, was denied under that name.

Originally named Lebanon, the name was changed to West Lebanon in 1869 when the town was incorporated, possibly in deference to the Boone County community of the same name which established its post office on December 15, 1832, just eleven days before their own.

Originally the community was settled by Irish and German immigrants in the early 19th century.

Originally an agricultural town, beginning in the 1940s and accelerating in the 1950s, suburban residential development, which occurred southward ( beginning on subdivisions near Kwis Avenue ), transformed Hacienda Heights into a residential or bedroom community.

Originally there was a feed store in the community for farmers, and in the rear of that building there was a small post office.

Originally, the community was called " Mud Creek " after the creek that flows through the community and that the railroad tracks crossed ; the Ojibwe population in the area, though, called the creek Basa ' igani-ziibiwishenh (" Creek to square Ceder Timbers "), thus call the community Basa ' igani-ziibiwishenying (" By the Creek to square Ceder Timbers ").