Lord Calvert wrote:
Colony of Virginia - May 14, 1607, was planted with settlers who had left
England in December of 1606. Their settlement Jamestown was the first
permanent settlement in North America.
St. Augustine, FL doesn't count? As I recall, there were hundreds of
permanent settlements in Virginia before the white folks showed up.
Don't forget New Mexico. Wasn't Taos founded at about the same time as St.
Augustine?
St. Augustine, founded in 1565, is billed as "the oldest, continuously
occupied, European settlement in the U.S." The de Luna settlement of
1559 was abandoned and the Native Americans claim an older, continuously
occupied city.
Packrat
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