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 the Zwijndrechtse Waard, on which the municipalities of Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht and Zwijndrecht and the village of Rijsoord ( partially ) lie, was a separate river island, the western branch of river Waal separating the two.

Originally there were two branches from that point: the Oosterschelde ( Eastern Scheldt ) and the Westerschelde ( Western Scheldt ) but in the 19th century the river was cut off from its eastern ( actually: northern ) branch by a dyke that connects Zuid-Beveland with the mainland ( North Brabant ).

Originally it was part of an ancient river system that was cut off by deposition material and became 2 small lakes divided by a narrow peninsula.

Originally Haven Bridge had been the only link over the river but in the late 1980s Breydon Bridge was built to take the A12 over Breydon Water replacing the old railway bridge ; the Breydon Viaduct.

Originally, the river bend was known as Lake's Ferry.

Originally located on the Linge river it became an important centre of trade in the early Middle Ages, especially after the demise of Dorestad in the 9th century.

Originally, named Gardner's Fork, the river took on Gardner's name although prospectors and explorers who visited the area later in the century were unaware of the trapper Johnson Gardner.

Originally a part of Dover, boundary disputes among early river settlers caused this area to be called Bloody Point.

Originally called Wahatquenak by the local Lenni Lenape Native Americans, the Maurice River is said to be named for a local legend, in which a Dutch ship on the river, the Prince Maurice, was sunk by the local Native Americans in 1657.

Originally known as Roundabout ( for the river bends in the area ) and then as Wood's Landing, it was renamed in the 1870s for James R. Sayre, Jr. of Newark, co-owner of Sayre & Fisher Brick Company, one of the many companies that took advantage of the extensive clay deposits supported the brick industry from the early 19th century until 1970.

Originally part of the Land Grant to the Livingston family, this area on the Roeliff-Jansen Kill was originally called " Livingston Forge " after the iron foundry on the river.

Originally a crossing point on the river, settlement began in the early 1900s.

Originally De Pere consisted of only the community on the east side of the river ; however, in 1890 the City of West De Pere, on the west side of the river, consolidated with the city of De Pere to form one community.

Originally the town developed around the water meadows next to several bends in the river, but in time has spread onto the valley hillsides and absorbed part of the military airfield at Boscombe Down.

Originally, the railroad was to have run from McDade, ten miles ( 16 km ) east of Elgin, southwest to the Colorado River at a point somewhere between Bastrop and Webberville, then to Austin following the river.

Originally, the area was known as " Wepawaug ", after the small river which runs through the town, and which has given its name to several streets in both Milford and Orange.

Originally, it could only be reached by a narrow path along the banks of the river, but later a bridge was built across Narog.

Originally the city was situated at a meander near the mouth of the river Leda into the Ems, which is still the center of the town today.

Originally this short stretch of navigable river was under the control of the Abbey ; today it, including Blake's Lock, is administered by the Environment Agency as if it were part of the River Thames.

Originally the route river route between Morpeth and West Maitland was, today after various floods and river course changes this has reduced to just.

Originally called " The Basin " after the circular valley the city is located in, it is unclear as to whether Madras was named in 1903 for the cotton fabric called " Madras " that originated in the Madras ( now Chennai ) area in India, or from the city of Chennai, then known as " Madras ".

Originally, the town and station were called Halsey, but the name was changed to Woodburn due to the existence of Halsey, Oregon, further down the valley.

Originally, this valley was called Coyotoc by the native Zoque population, which means “ land or house of rabbits .” The Aztecs intruded into the area and named it “ Tochtlán ” which means the same thing.

Originally, U. S. 151 went through the valley that made up the southern border of the city limits, but with the completion of the four-lane limited-access superhighway, traffic has been rerouted and now loops south of the city.

Originally a rather insignificant spot in rural Monmouthshire with only about 120 inhabitants at the end of the 18th century, Ebbw Vale — and the whole valley — was transformed by the Industrial Revolution.

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

The A118 briefly becomes a dual carriageway as it crosses the valley of the River Lea ( Originally, there was a strait or narrow ford here, which gave its name to Stratford ).

Originally settled by colonists from New England, Montreal and the Richelieu River valley circa 1798, Richmond is considered to be one of the oldest settlements in the former region of the Eastern Townships.

Originally, he lived in his birthplace in the Suupuu valley in Northern Europe with his parents, Suupuupapa and Suupuumama, but Suupuupapa, Genshitenson's spirit beast, was greatly wounded in a battle with Chou Koumei, and was forced to retire.

Originally the mine was only the underground block cave and an underground concentrator with an ' hotel '/ bunkhouse where the workers live when the Rio Blanco valley is impassable in the winter.

Originally, from Joshimath, during their reign they dominated lands of varying extent from the ' Katyur ' ( modern day Baijnath ) valley in Kumaon, between 7th and 11th centuries AD, and established their capital, at Baijnath in Bageshwar district, which was then known as Kartikeyapura and lies in the centre of ' Katyur ' valley. Brahmadev mandi in Kanchanpur District of Nepal was established by Katyuris king Brahma deo.

Originally named Nankersey, meaning valley of the reed swamp, the village was given its name by Dutch engineers from Flushing in the Netherlands who built the three main quays in the village.

Originally there were nine bands, with dialect differences among them but primarily between upriver and downriver dialects, demarcated by the Big Valley mountains east of the Fall River valley.

Originally, a system of interconnected lakes occupied a large area of the valley, of which Lake Texcoco was the largest.

Originally a small community called " Humber Trails " nestled in the valley around the King Creek west of The Mill Road.

Originally settled by Maritime Archaic Indians, the Miramichi River valley was controlled by the Mi ' kmaq Nation at the time of European discovery.

Originally this stream was in a deep valley along the route of the streets Pötzleinsdorfer Straße, Gersthofer Straße, Gentzgasse and Währinger Straße, and flowed into the River Als in the 9th District.

Originally called the Solent Vikings, the team changed to their current name a year later.

Originally released for the IBM 6150 RISC workstation, AIX now supports or has supported a wide variety of hardware platforms, including the IBM RS / 6000 series and later IBM POWER and PowerPC-based systems, IBM System i, System / 370 mainframes, PS / 2 personal computers, and the Apple Network Server.

Originally applied to any group of infantry primarily armed with projectile weapons, artillery has over time become limited in meaning to refer only to those engines of war that operate by projection of munitions far beyond the effective range of personal weapons.

Originally published in modern Hebrew, with a running commentary to facilitate learning, his Steinzaltz edition of the Talmud has also been translated into English, French, Russian and Spanish.

Originally invented in the 1980s in the Eastern Asia region, bubble tea has since become popular in Australia, USA and Europe.

Originally established in 1983, it has since become an international enterprise with branches and subsidiaries in North America, Europe, and East Asia.

Originally a neutral term, since the mid-1960s it has acquired a somewhat derogatory meaning, implying a paranoid tendency to see the influence of some malign covert agency in events.

Originally, it was a summer program for disadvantaged youth, although it has grown into an AmeriCorps-sponsored non-profit organization with six regional offices that serve Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, and North and South Dakota.

Originally concerned with infants and children, the field has expanded to include adolescence, adult development, aging, and the entire life span.

Originally a street party held on Princes Street and the Royal Mile, the Hogmanay event has been officially organised since 1993.

Originally researched by Dr. Jon Parmentola for the U. S. Army, it has grown into a very plausible successor to a standard solid propellant tank gun.

Originally developed on IRIX, Freeciv has been ported to many different operating systems: it is distributed with many Linux distributions, offers installers for Microsoft Windows, and has been known to run on Mac OS X, Solaris, Ultrix, QNX, OS / 2, Cygwin, AmigaOS, RISC OS, Maemo, ZETA, SkyOS and various BSDs.

Originally developed by IBM at their campus in south San Jose, California in the 1950s for scientific and engineering applications, Fortran came to dominate this area of programming early on and has been in continual use for over half a century in computationally intensive areas such as numerical weather prediction, finite element analysis, computational fluid dynamics, computational physics and computational chemistry.

Originally created with the intentions to " come up with a good, marketable character ", Garfield has spawned merchandise earning $ 750 million to $ 1 billion annually.

Originally, the Iceman / Beast friendship was one of the cornerstones of the X-Universe, but has recently been ignored by writers.

Originally made of rock, flint, and obsidian, knives have evolved in construction as technology has, with blades being made from bronze, copper, iron, steel, ceramics, and titanium.

Originally in Astounding Science Fiction ( February, 1950 ), this story was first anthologized in Groff Conklin's Omnibus of Science Fiction ( Crown, 1952 ) and has also been published under the title " The Pyramid in the Desert.

Originally, Linnaeus established three kingdoms in his scheme, namely for Plants, Animals and an additional group for minerals, which has long since been abandoned.

Originally intended to be one ten-millionth of the distance from the Earth ′ s equator to the North Pole ( at sea level ), its definition has been periodically refined to reflect growing knowledge of metrology.

Originally formulated for two-player zero-sum game theory, covering both the cases where players take alternate moves and those where they make simultaneous moves, it has also been extended to more complex games and to general decision making in the presence of uncertainty.

Originally built mainly as a dual three-lane motorway, much of the motorway has subsequently been widened to dual four-lanes in places and to a dual five-lane section between junctions 12 and 14 and a dual six-lane between junctions 14 and 15.

A special case is the word you: Originally, ye was its nominative form and you the accusative, but over time you has come to be used for the nominative as well.

Originally a training exercise in land navigation for military officers, orienteering has developed many variations.

Originally, plasma was generated in the process chamber, but as the need to get rid of free radicals has increased, many machines now use a downstream plasma configuration, where plasma is formed remotely and the desired particles are channeled to the wafer.

Originally invented in Naples, Italy, the dish has since become popular in many parts of the world.