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Populated places established in 1854

  • Lawrence, KansasOn the 17th of July 1854, a group of twenty-nine men left Boston, Massachusetts, to establish a new settlement in the Kansas Territory.
  • AlmatyOn the 4th of February 1854, Russian engineers began constructing a wooden palisade called Fort Zailiyskoe between the Bolshaya and Malenkaya Almatinka…
  • Alameda, CaliforniaFor more than 3,000 years, a local band of the Ohlone tribe inhabited the low-lying marshy region that would become Alameda.