The group had been asked by church leaders to settle the area.

In the 19th century, a few European's began to settle the area.

After 1915 smaller groups of people began settling the area.

The Dutch then set about settling the area once again.

The district is not limited to this as many of the people settling the area had enough money to build whatever they wanted.

The first known attempts to settle the area appear to have been made during the 1740s.

It remains as a monument to those who first settled the area.

Though white settlers did not begin to settle the area until about 1824, they began passing through at the beginning of the 19th century.

The Fula first settled the area in the 14th century.

The first monks to settle the area were in the 14th-15th centuries.