11.   Like the original Swiss settlers on the rich Mississippi River bottom land at the turn of the century, residents of Valmeyer are homesteaders in a strange new land.

12.   Several hands went up when the preacher asked for descendants of Elisha Hill, an original settler.

13.   The first has been the values and institutions of the original settlers, who were Northern European, primarily British, and Christian, primarily Protestant.

14.   The neighbors are mostly the descendants of the original settlers, many working the same fields their great-great-grandfathers plowed.

15.   The original settlers of southwestern Virginia were Scots-Irish pioneers, who made a living on hilly corn and cattle farms and, later, in coal fields.

16.   Afrikaners are the descendants of the original Dutch settlers and other Europeans in what is now South Africa.

17.   However, once the original settlers started changing the topography, they committed their successors down to the present day to building dikes higher and higher.

18.   Little is known about the original settlers of Port Stevens, the Worimi Aborigines, who built bark canoes and survived on the abundant seafood available.

19.   The mascots were chosen because of their historic links to the original settlers of the Wasatch range.

20.   They were chosen because of their historic links to the original settlers of the Wasatch range.