His family was among the original settlers in the late 1950's.
Only 45 of the original 89 settlers reached California the following year.
Do you know what the original settlers made their houses of?
Many of the original settlers came when the area was still in Virginia.
A further 11 families joined the original settlers in 1935.
The name comes from the original German settlers who came to this land in the 19th century.
You see, we, the original settlers, came directly from Earth.
The original settlers built the town because of its creek.
But by 1920 only nine of more than a hundred original settlers remained.
At that time descendants of the original settlers still lived in the area.