Stone quarrying, sugar-beet farming, and the slaughter of sheep were among the area's earliest industries.

The earliest recorded mention of Merlot was in the notes of a local Bordeaux official who in 1784 labeled wine made from the grape in the Libournais region as one of the area's best.

Many of the area's earliest settlers are buried here.

Several of the earliest predecessors of the area's other major Class 1 railroad, Norfolk Southern ( NS ), also met at Petersburg.

One of the area's earliest settlers was Charles Langley, a Watsonville banker, who also operated the Prunedale post office.

The Mauckport area's earliest permanent settlers came from the Shenandoah Valley and Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

This was the area's earliest opening in 61 years and the earliest opening in North America for the season.

The land here was claimed from the native Delaware tribe by Casper Taub, one of the area's earliest European settlers.

One of the area's earliest soundings was obtained June 12, 1852 by Lt. S. P. Lee, U. S. Navy brig Dolphin, with a reading of at ( 26 ° 32 ' N, 60 ° 06 ' W ).< ref > The Deepest Sounding in the North Atlantic, J. Lyman, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London.

Of the area's current inhabitants, the earliest to arrive were the Pygmies, who moved in from further south and east in ancient times and lived for centuries as hunter-gatherers in the forests.

The earliest written record of horses in the New Forest dates back to that time, when rights of common of pasture were granted to the area's inhabitants.

Two of Britain's earliest antiquarians, John Aubrey ( 1626 – 97 ) and William Camden ( 1551 – 1623 ), visited Cumbria with an interest in studying the area's megalithic monuments.

The area's earliest settlers were French Huguenots, who are also responsible for another South Shore neighborhood not far away being named Huguenot.

From his earliest travels to Palestine in 1925, he saw and developed a regard for the work of the early Jewish immigrants to improve the area's agriculture and industry.

The area's geography and location on the Ohio River attracted people from the earliest times.

The southern end of the Moshassuck River was the center for the area's earliest mills in the seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries and the location of base-metal works and textile factories in the nineteenth century.

The tradition of choosing the tournament's " Classic Girls " from among the area's collegians began in those early years, with the earliest tournaments having a celebrity dubbed " Classic Queen.

Phillips County is Arkansas's seventh county, formed on May 1, 1820, and named for Sylvanus Phillips, the area's first-known white settler and representative to the first Territorial Legislature of the Arkansas Territory.

Attracted by the area's rich soil, and further encouraged by the opening of the Federal Road, white settlers swarmed the area.

Some of the area's first white residents were from North Carolina who came here by ox cart seeking refuge from the war, and undoubtedly encountered Seminole Indians when they arrived.

Although the first white man may have passed through the Naubinway and Engadine area, perhaps as early as 1640, the area's recorded history did not begin until some 200 years later.

The Houghton Lake area's first white settlers were said to be the Emery family in 1873.

Hoping that the area's coal, iron ore, white pine, and high-quality clay would produce significant future wealth, railroad investors led by Christopher and John Fallon financed a line to Lock Haven.

In 1778, Isaac Tripp, known as the area's first white settler, built his home here ; it still stands in the city's Providence section.

The name " White Stone " refers to the accumulations of white stones in the area's waterways.

However, the Great Miramichi Fire of 1825, the advent of steel-hulled ships, and perhaps over-cutting of eastern white pine, would eventually contribute to a long-term decline in the area's economy.

They had an accumulation of grievances against the entertainments in the Birka: high prices ; much venereal disease among the area's prostitutes ; theft and general dishonesty ; an incident when an English soldier from Manchester found his sister serving as a nude dancer and prostitute there ( she had accepted an offer for a job in domestic service, but her purported employer took her to Cairo and left her there: see white slave trade ), and when he tried to take her away, the brothel's staff threw him out of an upstairs window.

It was referred to as " The River Huron " in the 1784 home eulogy of the area's first white settler, William Tucker, who built his home along the river about upstream.

Eagle Rock has seen a considerable influx of middle class white and Filipino residents drawn by the area's architecture and schools, the latter of which are some of the best in the Los Angeles Unified School District.

However, the segment along Tomorrowland's main avenue still seems to be maintained, as it was repainted in the area's new blue and white paint scheme in 2005.

The Encruzado is the principal grape of the area's whites with some blend of Malvasia Fina and Bical. Garrafeira white wines require at least 0. 5 % more alcohol by volume then the 11. 5 % DOC minimum and at least 6 months aging in oak.

The area's African American population began growing in the 1880s through the migration of blacks from the southern states ; white flight in the early 1960s completed the transition to a majority-black population.

As part of the pueblos blancos ( white towns ) in southern Spain's Andalusia region, Ubrique reminds travellers of that area's Arab past.

The arrival of British-financed railways to the region in the 1880s brought with it the area's first significant presence of white settlers, some of whom had served in the regiments involved in the Conquest of the Desert and were granted vast tracts of land.

According to the accounts of historian Diodorus Siculus and geographer Strabo, the area's first permanent settlers were the mountain-dwelling Ligures, who emigrated from their native city of Genoa, Italy.

The area's settlers mostly came from Kentucky and Ohio, with others arriving from Tennessee, Virginia and the Carolinas.

The county was almost certainly named for Randolph County, North Carolina, where the area's first settlers came from.

The Ohio River made Perry County a focal point and settlers were drawn here due to plentiful supplies of natural resources and the area's scenic beauty.

The site of the cemetery, in which many of the area's first settlers are buried, was chosen so that mourners would not have to ferry their dead across the river for burial.

The area's soil, game, climate, and proximity to rivers and streams proved attractive to settlers, the majority of whom were drawn there from neighboring states following the expulsion of the indigenous Creeks ..

The town was founded by settlers drawn by the area's then-abundant lumber and river traffic, making it one of Minnesota's oldest towns, predating Minneapolis by several years.

The town was named for the baby of one of the area's early settlers, Golden Patrie Wiggins.

The name Piscataway stems from the area's original European settlers, transplants from near the Piscataqua River defining the coastal border between New Hampshire and Maine, whose name derives from peske ( branch ) and tegwe ( tidal river ).

Today's Shoal Harbor Museum and Old Spy House includes portions of a house constructed by Thomas Whitlock, one of the area's first European settlers, who arrived after the English conquest of New Netherland in 1665 as part of the Second Anglo-Dutch War.

In 1804, brothers Charles and Oliver Johnson and their families became the area's first settlers.

Brownsville was originally known as " Calapooya " after the area's original inhabitants, the Kalapuya Indians, or " Kirk's Ferry ", after the ferry operated across the Calapooia River by early settlers Alexander and Sarah Kirk.

The area's population dropped from about 3, 000 in 1755 at the start of the war to about 300, with most settlers not returning until after 1764 when the peace treaty was signed.

Weiser told the area's settlers they could not remain.

Former Texas Ranger Calvin G. Aten was one of the area's first settlers.

Due to the area's high elevation, 6, 600 feet above sea level, the settlers ' initial crops did not mature and the community suffered severely during the first harsh winter.

Fur traders and European mercenaries hired by Lord Selkirk to protect his fledgling Red River Colony were among the area's first European settlers.

The Mission San Gabriel Arcángel served a central role in Spanish colonial society, with many of the area's first Mexican settlers being baptized at the mission, including Pio Pico, who was born and baptized at the mission in 1801.

The first settlers arrived in St. Marys in the early 1840s, attracted by the area's natural resources.