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Former state capitals in the United States
- Huntsville, AlabamaHuntsville, Alabama sits in a valley carved by the Tennessee River, ringed by mountains with names like Monte Sano and Rainbow, built around a spring that…
- DetroitOn the 24th of July 1701, Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac and his lieutenant Alphonse de Tonty began constructing a small fort on the north bank of the Detroit…
- San Jose, CaliforniaSan Jose was founded on the 29th of November 1777 , before the United States even had a Constitution , as the Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe, the first…
- Princeton, New JerseyThe Lenape Native Americans were the earliest identifiable inhabitants of the Princeton area. Europeans settled into the region in the late part of the 17th…
- New OrleansNew Orleans sits roughly 105 miles upriver from the Gulf of Mexico, cradled between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, on ground that is, in many…
- Wheeling, West VirginiaWheeling, West Virginia carries a name whose origins may trace back to a severed head. The Lenni-Lenape phrase wih link or wee lunk, meaning "place of the…
- HoustonHouston was founded by land investors on the 30th of August 1836, at the spot where Buffalo Bayou meets White Oak Bayou.
- Savannah, GeorgiaSavannah, Georgia was founded on the 12th of February 1733, when General James Oglethorpe and settlers from the ship Anne stepped ashore at Yamacraw Bluff.
- Macon, GeorgiaMacon, Georgia sits at a precise geographic seam. It is 85 miles southeast of Atlanta and 165 miles northwest of Savannah, and the land beneath it has been…
- PhiladelphiaPhiladelphia sits on a narrow strip of land between the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers, and in the summer of 1776, the men gathered there made a decision…
- Natchez, MississippiNatchez, Mississippi sits on a bluff above the Mississippi River, close to ninety miles southwest of Jackson. In 1840, a tornado tore through this city and…
- New York CityAn estimated 800 languages are spoken in New York City, more than in any other city on earth. That single fact captures something about the place at the…