Sentence examples for Permanent settler from inspiring English sources

Moravian missionaries camped briefly on the site in 1787, but the first permanent settler was Nathan Perry, from Vermont, who built a trading post there in 1807.

Above us was a tall bronze statue — a rendering of the man said to be Iceland's first permanent settler (from Norway, in the ninth century).

The area had recently been inhabited by Ho-Chunk Nation (Winnebago) Indians when the first permanent settler, Caleb Blodgett of New Hampshire, purchased the site from a French fur trader in 1836.

Named for Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, a Haitian fur trader and the first non-Native-American permanent settler in Chicago, it was founded in 1961 to celebrate black culture, at the time overlooked by most museums and academic establishments.

][ By the 1850s, historians of Chicago recognized Point du Sable as the city's earliest non-native permanent settler.

The first permanent settler in Iceland is usually considered to be a Norwegian chieftain named Ingólfur Arnarson.

The first permanent settlers arrived about 1822 and engaged in fishing and salvaging shipwrecks.

As permanent settlers arrived, many mountain men served as scouts and guides, but their way of life was gradually eliminated by advancing civilization.

Many Irish came to work on the Ohio canals and stayed on, and when the railroads were built, the Irish and German workers remained as permanent settlers.

French fur traders, led by François Chouteau, traveled up the Missouri River from St . Louisand were the first permanent settlers in the area (1821).

The archipelago, which includes St Helena and Ascension Island, was first sighted in 1506, but has had permanent settlers only since 1810.