By the 1920's, industrialization and overharvesting had destroyed the population, along with those of other oysters that once populated New York's waters.
The region was once populated by Khoisan-speaking peoples.
The Lenape, also called the Delaware, once populated the East Coast from Massachusetts to northern Virginia.
BALLARD, an up-and-coming neighbourhood in north-west Seattle, was once populated by hard-drinking Norwegian fishermen.
But there has been little talk of the political dissidents who once populated Myanmar's prisons or how many remain incarcerated.
The forecourts of these compounds, once populated with religious pilgrims, eventually became gathering places and fairgrounds for people of fashion.
And, she said, some design companies are moving their showrooms to side-street locations that were once populated by suppliers.
There lay the pioneers who once populated north Georgia's rugged frontier, where striving white men planted corn and cotton, fought for the Confederacy and owned slaves.
He is reckoned to be responsible for wiping out much of the megafauna giant elk, aurochs, marsupial lions that once populated Earth.
Hotels and offices have replaced many of the warehouses and garment showrooms that once populated the 10 blocks around the northern end of Madison Square Park.
Within a year, villages once populated by several hundred Saxons were largely abandoned, and before long the Gypsies had taken their place.
