Originally settled in the 1650s by the Europeans as Billingsgate ( after the famous fish market in East London ), Wellfleet was part of neighboring Eastham until 1763, achieving town status after nearly 30 years of petitioning.

Originally hoping for a statue, he settled for a plaque on the walls of Norwich Castle engraved with his words and unveiled in 1949, 400 years after the rebellion.

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 settled almost entirely by immigrants of British and Irish stock, Worcester County was divided during the colonial period into several parishes, though Quakers, Presbyterians, and later Methodists also set up meeting houses.

Originally settled by yeomen farmers, in the nineteenth century numerous plantations were established for the cultivation of short-staple cotton.

Originally settled by Puritans as part of the town of New Haven, Hamden was purchased by Theophilus Eaton and the Reverend John Davenport in 1638 from the local Quinnipiack Native American tribe.

Originally settled in the early 19th century, Lake Villa was once a resort town where the affluent and many other tourists came to relax.

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

Originally the northwest portion of Freeport, it was first settled in 1680.

Originally a part of West Pond Plantation, it was first settled about 1780 by Richard Furbish from Lebanon.

Originally known as Township No. 7, it was first settled about 1809.

Originally settled by colonists at what had become the juncture of several plantation farms the name for the town itself comes from a land patent and resurvey granted by patent from the Lord proprietor's land office to James Sulivane in May 1776 just prior to the issuance of the American Declaration of Independence as " New Market.

Originally were sold to Henry Funk by Frederick Calvert in 1754 and settled as Jerusalem.

Originally settled by the Nauset tribe, Eastham was the site where in 1621 a hunting expedition comprised from the crew of the sailing vessel Mayflower, which had stopped in Provincetown harbor on Cape Cod Bay after a rough crossing of the Atlantic Ocean, which led to the first encounter of the Pilgrims and the local Nauset Indians at First Encounter Beach.

Originally known as Northern Berkshire Township Number 2 and including all of Hinsdale and part of Middlefield, the town was first settled in 1767 and was officially incorporated as Partridgefield in 1771.

Originally part of Salem and the Naumkeag Territory, the area was first settled in 1626 by Roger Conant.

Originally settled by several English families, after the city's industrial revolution its population was redefined by the nationality of its immigrant occupants, predominantly Polish and French Canadian.

Originally called " Dallas ", Fowler was created when John Parks settled the area and became its first postmaster in 1849.

Originally settled by Chippewa Indians, the township took its name — French for " Great white "— from French traders who arrived before 1800.

Originally settled in the 1820s and 1830s, this small town has a rich history, centered around the picturesque area known locally as " Webster Corners ".

Originally settled by French and French Canadians, the township was originally named Oneka, later Centerville Station, and finally Hugo around 1906, which officially incorporated as a city in 1972.

Originally settled in 1896, Jordan received a post office on July 11, 1899.

Originally settled in the 1830s, Bellevue was incorporated in 1855 and is the oldest continuous town in Nebraska.

Originally called New Durham Gore because of rocky upland areas, or " gores ," the town was settled in 1770, mainly by farmers because the highland areas provided less frost.

Originally known as " Lyndeborough Addition ", the area was first settled by the Lynde family in 1753.

Originally the name was two words, Oro Fino, applied to a gold mining camp established in 1861 two miles ( 3 km ) south of Pierce, that is now a ghost town.

Originally Milton Old Field, it was founded by in 1861.

Originally composed of nobles, the intelligentsia came to be dominated by classless people ( raznochintsy ) after 1861.

Originally called York Mills, it was later renamed to York Branch, The Branch, York River in 1861, and finally to Bancroft on 15 October 1879 by Senator Billa Flint, after the maiden name of his wife.

Originally called Queenstown, the area was surveyed in 1858 and a town proclaimed on 25 February 1861.

Originally, it was a brainchild of the German / Russian astronomer Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, who would become its first director ( in 1861, his son Otto Wilhelm von Struve succeeded him ).

Originally styled The Otago Daily Times, the ODT was first published on 15 November 1861.

Originally named the Yale Scientific School, it was renamed in 1861 in honor of Joseph E. Sheffield, the railroad executive.

Originally prospering enough to create the new community of Omoa Town, the Omoa Works suffered a downturn through several changes in ownership and a slump in trade following the outbreak of Civil War in America in 1861.

Originally it was unveiled in 1861, consisting of the statues of three Guards Men, with the female allegorical figure referred to as Honour.

Originally of liberal tendencies, he developed from 1837 onwards ultramontane opinions, founded in 1852 the Catholic group which in 1861 took the name of the Centre Party and became one of its most conspicuous orators.

The first firm to bear the name of Jones and Laughlin was organized in 1861 and headquartered at Third & Ross in downtown Pittsburgh Originally producing only iron, the enterprise began the production of steel in 1886.

Originally, the names of these APIs all began with Direct, such as Direct3D, DirectDraw, DirectMusic, DirectPlay, DirectSound, and so forth.

Originally based in Portsmouth, Ohio and called the Portsmouth Spartans, the team began play in 1929 as an independent professional team, one of many such teams in the Ohio and Scioto River valleys.

Originally the Babylonian calendar was used by Jews for all daily purposes, but following the conquest of Jerusalem by Pompey in 63 BCE ( see also Iudaea province ), Jews began additionally following the imperial civil calendar, which was decreed in 45 BCE, for civic matters such as the payment of taxes and dealings with government officials.

Originally from West-Central Africa, Bantus began a millennium-long series of migrations referred to as the Bantu expansion that first brought them to East Africa about 2000 years ago.

Originally, Moscow processions began inside the Kremlin and terminated at Trinity Church, now known as Saint Basil's Cathedral, but in 1658 Patriarch Nikon reversed the order of procession.

Originally manufacturing aeroplanes, the company sought ways in which to diversify its business and in the late 1940s began manufacturing cars.

Originally, animation was all hand-drawn by artists, though in the 1980s, beginning with Captain Power, computers began to automate the task of creating repeated images ; by the 1990s, hand-drawn animation became defunct.

Originally, the terms of the President, the Vice President and the incoming Congress began on March 4, four months after the elections were held.

Originally scheduled for May / June 1977 but first published one month later on a bimonthly schedule with an initial ( and speculative ) print run of 4, 000, White Dwarf continued the fantasy and science fiction role-playing and board-gaming theme developed in Owl and Weasel but, owing to the increase in available space, began to produce reviews, articles and scenarios to a greater depth than had previously been possible.

Originally, when Lee began researching various fighting styles, he gave his martial art his own name of Jun Fan Gung Fu.

Originally produced in black and white, in 1957 the show began being recorded on videotape, and it switched to color for the fall 1965 season.

Originally French oak was used but as the cost of the barrels increased many bodegas began to buy American oak planks and fashion them into barrels at Spanish cooperages in a style more closely resembling the French method.

Originally created to protect Northern Ugandans from the 1986 military coup by the People's National Resistance Army, Joseph Kony began the LRA-Lord's Resistance Army in 1987.

Originally a non-football conference, the Sun Belt began sponsoring football in 2001.

Unity began without intention of becoming a “ church ” as demonstrated by the name “ Unity School of Christianity .” For the first three-quarters of a century, “ it had been an auxiliary type of religion, a booster station amplifying the power of Christian faith .” ( Bach, 1965, p 5 ) Originally it was “ A religious-educational movement teaching the use of God-consciousness in everyday life, clarifying the working of divine law, explaining the action of the mind which it calls the connecting link between God and man .” ( Bach, 1965, p 5 ) Leaders and followers, equally shared their understandings in attempts to find “ universal truths ,” or laws that were true for all persons, all religions, all places, all times.

Originally the site of a military base in the 18th and early 19th centuries, development of the site into a governmental precinct began in 1859, after Bytown was chosen by Queen Victoria as the capital of the Province of Canada.

Originally dedicated to recording traditional jazz and small group swing, from 1947 the label began to switch its attention to modern jazz.

Originally having been an ancient fort during Roman times, the first feudal lords began to inhabit the castle around 1000 AD.

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

Originally, a boy's boarding school, in 1971 the Academy began accepting girls.

Originally the Village of Partridge, it was a Great Northern Railway stop ; its post office began as Partridge, 1889 – 1909, before changing to Askov.

Originally about in size, the city quickly began to grow and flourish.

Originally called " Short Mill ," Shortsville began its existence in 1804 when Theophilus Short built two mills along the shores of the Canandiagua Outlet ; the village was then incorporated in 1889.

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

Originally a private, non-denominational school, in 1907 DIAS began to be state supported.