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Settlement began in the area near Wright in the 1970s, with the creation of the Black Thunder Coal Mine, the largest mine in the Powder River Basin and most productive mine in the United States.
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Settlement of the Petitcodiac and Memramcook river valleys began about 1700, gradually extending inland and reaching the site of present day Moncton in 1733.
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" Settlement in the southern highlands was minimal from the 12th through the 10th centuries BCE, but a state began to emerge there in the 9th century, and from 850 BCE onwards a series of inscriptions are evidence of a kingdom which its neighbours refer to as the " House of David.
Settlement of the county began in 1727, when Adam Miller ( Mueller ) staked out a claim on the south fork of the Shenandoah River, near the line that now divides Rockingham County from Page County.
Settlement of the area began around 1640 with the county being officially formed in 1669 from a part of Lancaster County.
Settlement in Monroe County began when Dedrick Pike settled where the Cache River enters the White River in 1816.
Settlement began in earnest when the Grand Bay Land Company began offering ten acre lots for sale in the early 1900s.
Settlement began in 1849, though Spanish missionaries and soldiers passed through the area as early as the 1770s.
Settlement of land in and around Nashville began with the acquisition of land from native populations under the 1809 Treaty of Fort Wayne.
Settlement of what became Bellevue began when a fur trading post was built in 1822 by Joshua Pilcher, then president of the Missouri Fur Company based in St. Louis.
Settlement in the area of Sea Bright began in the early 1840s, with a fishing community of simple shacks near the beach dunes that was called " Nauvoo ".
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Their homeland – the Inuvialuit Settlement Region – covers the Arctic Ocean coastline area from the Alaskan border east to Amundsen Gulf and includes the western Canadian Arctic Islands.
Settlement in the area dates back to prehistoric times, with three Iron Age hillforts, Oram's Arbour, St Catherine's Hill and Worthy Down all in the near vicinity.
The architect of the Land Conservation Council was the newly appointed Minister of Lands, Conservation and Soldier Settlement, William Borthwick who supported retaining the area as a nature reserve.
In addition, the term Pale of Settlement was applied to the area in the west of Imperial Russia where Jews were permitted to reside.
This area has changed notably since European Settlement ; with the drainage of ecologically significant wetlands and development of the small bach community.
The Native Americans ' first recorded encounter with Europeans in this area was in 1608, with John Smith of the Jamestown Settlement.
The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act recognized Ninilchik as an Alaska Native village, which led to the formation of the Ninilchik Native Association Incorporated and eventually to the further recognition, by the US Congress, that Ninilchik's descendants comprised a quasi-sovereign government ( equivalent to American Indian tribes ), thereby establishing the Ninilchik Traditional Council ( NTC ) as the governing body for Natives who live in the area surrounding Ninilchik or who descended from the original inhabitants.
The area was first settled in the 1680s as Peagscomsuck, consisting mainly of land north of Norwich, south of New Roxbury, Massachusetts ( now Woodstock, Connecticut ) and west of the Quinebaug River and the Plainfield Settlement.
Combee Settlement is a census-designated place and an unincorporated area in Polk County, Florida, United States.
The following year, in 1809, Dunn resettled his entire family to the area, and they became the first residents of a town called " Dunn's Settlement ," which would later come to be known as Hanover.
While he served religious needs of Presbyterians in a wide area of land in southern Indiana, he quickly realized that a large portion of those he proselytized to was the Scotch-Irish Presbyterians from Dunn's Settlement.
Therefore, while Dunn's Settlement was small, the concentration of Presbyterians living there was significant when considering the overall small number of Presbyterians in the area.
Settlement of the area primarily occurred however when Kaskaskia, Peoria, Wea, and Piankeshaw Indian tribes were forced to move to the area between 1827 and 1832.
In the 1840, the " English Settlement " started to form in the Township's northwest area with settlers from England.
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