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- Jacksonville, FloridaOn Black Hammock Island, a University of North Florida team uncovered pottery fragments dating to 2500 BCE. These artifacts represent some of the oldest…
- Nashville, TennesseeIn 1779, explorers James Robertson and John Donelson led a party of Overmountain Men to the site of French Lick. They constructed Fort Nashborough there…
- Louisville, KentuckyGeorge Rogers Clark established a settlement on Corn Island in 1778, marking the birth of what would become Louisville. The Falls of the Ohio created an…
- DenverIn November 1858, gold prospectors from Lawrence, Kansas, established a mining town called Montana City on the banks of the South Platte River.
- IndianapolisOn the 6th of January 1821, the Indiana General Assembly named a new capital city Indianapolis. Surveyors Alexander Ralston and Elias Pym Fordham designed a…
- New OrleansIn the spring of 1718, French colonists under Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville established a settlement on land traditionally inhabited by the Chitimacha…
- Kansas City, KansasOn the 29th of January 1859, the Kansas Territorial legislature passed an act incorporating the city of Wyandotte. This early settlement sat at the…
- Macon, GeorgiaIn 1809, President Thomas Jefferson directed the construction of Fort Benjamin Hawkins on Creek lands along the Ocmulgee River.
- PhiladelphiaWilliam Penn arrived in the Delaware Valley in 1682 to establish a colony where religious freedom could flourish. He purchased land from the Lenape people…
- San FranciscoOn the 2nd of November 1769, a Spanish exploration party led by Don Gaspar de Portolá arrived at San Francisco Bay. This marked the first documented European…