" Robber's Roost was the first business in the valley, other than the early trading that occurred among American Indians, cattle drivers, trappers, and miners.

While the river valley civilizations always had larger populations, the trading societies on the coast of the sea soon became the most prosperous, and rose to power.

In Senegal, trading posts were established in Gorée, St. Louis, Rufisque, Portudal and Joal and the upper valley of the Senegal River, including Fort St. Joseph Galam was in the 18th century a French engine of trafficking in Senegambia.

Likewise, the Dutch set up fur trading posts in the Hudson River valley, followed by large grants of land to patroons, who brought in tenant farmers that created compact, permanent villages.

Ancient Sumerians used square rigged sailing boats at about the same time, and it is believed they established sea trading routes as far away as the Indus valley.

Its original site was in a valley in the sea cliffs and it developed through fishing and its closeness to the Continent as a landing place and trading port.

After the Dutch started to settle the Hudson River valley in the early 17th century, the settlers established small communities ( trading posts ) into Western New Jersey.

In time, Major Owen established a trading post and military strong point named Fort Owen, which served the settlers, Indians, and missionaries in the valley.

After numerous voyages, explorations of the Mississippi valley, trading ventures and several mutinies, La Salle ’ s bones are believed to have found their resting place in the Navasota Valley.

Castle Rock prospered as a Cowlitz River steamboat port and trading center for valley farms.

In the teacup valley in which Rock Island is currently located, two men, Ingraham and McBride, opened a trading post in the early 1860s.

Between 1851 and 1881, Russia occupied the Ili valley in Xinjiang, and continued to negotiate with the Qing for trading and settlement rights for Russians.

The region of Beaujolais was first cultivated by the Romans who planted the areas along its trading route up the Saône valley.

French trade in the upper valley was dominated by the Ojibwe and tied to Lake Superior traders, whereas in the lower valley the Dakota assisted in trading with merchants based out of St. Louis downstream.

Likewise, the Dutch set up fur trading posts in the Hudson River valley, followed by large grants of land to rich landowning patroons who brought in tenant farmers who created compact, permanent villages.

In granting land to Zephaniah Platt of Poughkeepsie, New York-who went on to establish the new city of Plattsburgh to buffer emerging American interests in the Saint Lawrence River valley and Lake Champlain valley after the American victory in the American Revolutionary War-the centralized American authority proclaimed the area including and surrounding the old French trading areas and Iroquois settlement to be refounded as the settlement of Plattsburgh in 1785.

There is a history to how the Bhotias came to this valley and became the trading link between the Tibet and the rest of the world.

In 1723, Nyamhandi moved his capital into the valley near the Portuguese trading settlement of Tete, under Mwmenemutapa Nyatsusu.

Moyobamba is the center of a large agricultural region and one of the major trading centers for the Aguaruna Native Communities which inhabit the surrounding valley known as the Upper Mayo River Valley.

The valley of the river became increasingly used as a wintering ground for American trappers in the next decades, with trading posts established at the mouth of the White near Whiterocks, Utah, and Browns Park.

Bordering directly on Italy, control of the province gave the Roman state several advantages, such as control of the land route between Italy and the Iberian peninsula ; a buffer against attacks on Italy by tribes from Gaul ; and control of the lucrative trade routes of the Rhone valley, over which commercial goods flowed between Gaul and the trading center of Massalia.

The large bazaar of Hile further up the road, is an important trading centre and major road head, serving the remote hinterlands of the Arun valley and Bhojpur.

The Tibetans also initiated propaganda about having constructed a new road through the Tigri valley and establishing a post at the front.

Instead of 150-200 fighters in the valley as expected, post assessment held that the area contained up to 1, 000 enemies dug in on the high ground around the valley.

As the valley began to fill up with a few ranches and farms, a post office was established in 1875.

It received a post office in 1881 under the name Osgood after California Southern Railroad chief engineer Joseph O. Osgood ; the renaming was supposedly an unsuccessful attempt to convince Osgood to build the railroad through the San Luis Rey River valley ( the rail line eventually followed the Santa Margarita River instead ).

There is ample geographic and geological evidence that floods have occurred throughout the valley since prehistoric times, and there is historic evidence in diaries, anecdotes, folk tales, letters, official records, post cards, and the like that major flooding occurred with some regularity 1828, 1832, 1847, 1866, 1883, 1897, 1898, 1907.

The history of Foss began when settlers from the area of the Wilson post office moved four miles north to the valley of Turkey Creek in the late 1890s.

In the 1950s a further transformation swept the valley as the post World War Two population boom began to push into the valley, replacing most of the remaining apple orchards with tracts of houses.

Roman remains have been found in the valley and it is thought that the roads from York to Chester, and from settlements in Halifax and Wakefield, ran through Cleckheaton and the junction gave rise to a staging post.

The 101st Airborne Division's objectives were to secure the four causeway exits behind Utah Beach, destroy a German coastal artillery battery at Saint-Martin-de-Varreville, capture buildings nearby at Mezières believed used as barracks and a command post for the artillery battery, capture the Douve River lock at la Barquette ( opposite Carentan ), capture two footbridges spanning the Douve River at la Porte opposite Brevands, destroy the highway bridges over the Douve at Sainte-Come-du-Mont, and secure the Douve River valley.

Kufstein is a city in Tyrol, Austria, located along the river Inn, in the lower Inn valley, near the border with Bavaria, Germany, and is the site of a post World War II French sector United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration Displaced Persons camp.

The third division, was formed at Meerut, under Major-General Gillespie ; and it was purposed to march directly to the Dehra Dun ; and having reduced the forts in that valley, to move, as might be deemed expedient, to the eastward, to recover Srinagar from the troops of Amar Singh Thapa ; or to the westward, to gain the post of Nahan, the chief town of Sirmaur, where Ranjore Singh Thapa held the government for this father, Amar Singh ; and so sweep on towards the Sutlej, in order to cut off that chief from the rest, and thus to reduce him to terms.

Wilkerson's last blog post stated the following: " To those going through the valley and shadow of death, hear this word: Weeping will last through some dark, awful nights ," he wrote, " and in that darkness you will soon hear the Father whisper, ` I am with you.

* On the western side of the continental divide, the Migrant Trail proper ends at the fur trading post called Fort Bridger founded by famed mountain man Jim Bridger because the Mormon Trail split off to the south from the westward continuing Oregon and California Trails, following river valleys southwestward to the valley of the Great Salt Lake into present-day Utah.

Before British rule Lashio was also the centre of authority for the northern Shan States, but the Burmese post in the valley was close to the Nam Yao, in an old Chinese fortified camp.

Considering Benicia's position as the major inland Army post and transport hub to the valley, both Grant's and the Brotherhood's affinity for strong drink and the early spread of the Brotherhood through Northern California, it is entirely possible that Grant was inducted into the Organization.

There is an RSPB observation post in the valley of Riggindale, where the pair have their eyrie ( view point is manned by volunteers weekends and bank holidays from Easter to the end of August ).

Gaaz found two small wells with salty water ( the present Gaazo-Ponomaryovsky spring ) in the valley of the stream of Kislusha, about northeast of the Yessentuksky post.

Residential development reached Highton by the post war 1950s, the scenic hills overlooking the Barwon River valley being popular with residents.

* To see many of the above reports in detail and the two winged, post conquest structure on the valley bottom