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James Town
JamesTown was founded in May, 14, 1607
JamesTown was the fist ever succesful colony
James town was abonded after the capital moved to Williamsburg in 1699 -
Plymouth Colony
The Plymouth colony was the first permanent colony in Massachusetts from 1620-1691
The Ply mouth colony was founded on November 9, 1620 -
Dover Point
New Hampshire's first permanent European settlement began in 1623.
In the wake of Native Populations largely decimated by European diseases.
English traders and fisherman settled at Odiorne in presented day Rye and on dover point -
New Amsterdam
was a 17th-century Dutch settlement
established at the southern tip of Manhattan Island
served as the seat of the colonial government in New Netherland.
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St. Mary
Established in 1634 by colonists led by Leonard Calvert and named for the Virgin Mary
Maryland's first European settlement and was built on the site of a Secowocomoco Indian village.
St. Mary's City is the historic site of the founding of the Colony of Maryland -
Connecticut Colony
Connecticut Colony was one of the 13 colonies that declared indipendence from the Great Britian.
The colony started in 1636 and developed the first written constitution in America, the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut.
Purtan minister Thomas Hooker is regonized as the founder of Connecticut -
Providence
Rhode Island was founded by Roger Williams in 1636 who had been banished from the Massachusetts colony for his advocasy of religous tolerance and the seperation of church and state. -
New Sweden
The first European colony in the Delaware Valley was estanlished by Swedish settlers in 1638
The colony was best renowed for its agriculture particulary wheat, corn, and tobbacco farming.
The colony was also a significent ship building and trading center. The Delaware Colony was an important player in the American land -
The Carolina Province
The first English settlement in America, on Roanoke Island NC, was founded by explorer Sir Walter Raleigh, in 1585. ...
North Carolina is one of the United States' original 13 colonies. -
Hudson and Delaware rivers
The Delaware River is the longest undammed U.S. river east of the Mississippi River. The Delaware River is an interstate boundary its entire length - 330 miles. The deepest point of the Delaware is the Big Eddy at Narrowsburg, N.Y., at ~113 ft. -
Albemarle Point
In 1670, a group of English settlers founded a colony at this point, where the seat of government remained until the founding a decade later of Charleston, originally known as Charles Town, the first permanent white settlement in present South Carolina. -
Fort Elfsborg and Fort New Gothenburg
Fort Nya Elfsborg was a fortification and settlement established as a part of New Sweden. Built in 1643 and named after the Älvsborg Fortress off Gothenburg, Fort Nya Elfsborg was located on the New Jersey side of the Delaware River, between present day Salem and Alloway Creek. -
Colony of Georgia
Georgia's colonial experience was very different from that of the other British colonies in North America. Established in 1732, with settlement in Savannah in 1733, Georgia was the last of the thirteen colonies to be founded.