Sentence examples for settlements west of from inspiring English sources

Settlements west of the Ostravice are in Moravská ("Moravian") Ostrava.

Founded in 1741, the city of York (the county seat) is one of the oldest European settlements west of the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania.

To protect their route to the Mississippi, the French built Fort-Miami (1704), near present-day Fort Wayne; Fort-Ouiatanon (1719), near what is now Lafayette; and Fort-Vincennes (1732), one of the first permanent white settlements west of the Appalachians, at Vincennes.

There he founded the village of Boonesborough, Kentucky, one of the first American settlements west of the Appalachians.

And in May, Astoria will celebrate its bicentennial as the oldest American settlement west of the Rockies with a series of fairs, festivals and lectures.

Astoria is the "Oldest Settlement West of the Rockies," dating from a post that John Jacob Astor's Pacific Fur Company established in 1811.

The oldest permanent settlement west of the Alleghenies, it was founded in 1774 on the Wilderness Road as Harrodstown (later Oldtown, then Harrodsburg) by James Harrod and his pioneer group.

The city was founded in 1815 and named for Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst, then secretary for war and the colonies, and it is the oldest settlement west of the Great Dividing Range.

"I began having questions about what you were endorsing if you bought stocks in certain companies back in the early 1980's," said Mr. Rempel, who grew up in Kitchener, Ontario, a former Mennonite settlement west of Toronto, and now serves as his faith's representative to the United Nations.

She was born in 1999 and lived with her mother and younger brother in a densely populated settlement west of Phnom Penh until she was 2 -- at which point her mother, who was hungry, pregnant again and having trouble affording rent, decided to sell her.

The first Baptist settlement west of the Alleghany Mountains was in Elizabethtown.