Happy Trails to you on your quest for your ancestors. Harris County, Texas. Harris County is named for John Richardson Harris, who first arrived in the area in 1824. He first settled on land located at the junction of Bray's and Buffalo bayous. In 1825, he laid out the city of Harrisburg.
In the 1890s, lawyer and politician James Wickersham argued that pre-Columbian contact between Japanese sailors and Native Americans was highly probable, given that from the early 1600s to the mid-1800s several dozen Japanese ships were carried from Asia to North America along the powerful Kuroshio Currents.
Historical Examples. 1  pre-Columbian book, see Mexican.Prehistoric background of the book, 79-81. 2  In pre-Columbian America corn was the only cultivated cereal. 3  It is, indeed, possible that the skeleton may be pre-Columbian. 4  He was as primitive as the aborigines of the pre-Columbian period. Hunting with the Bow and Arrow Saxton Pope It is apparent that baskets of open construction were employed as sieves in pre-Columbian as well as in post-Columbian times.