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State capitals in the United States
- Austin, TexasOn the 27th of December 1839, the Texas Congress officially incorporated a settlement named Waterloo as the new capital of the Republic of Texas.
- Boise, IdahoIn 1863, the United States Army established a new Fort Boise on the banks of the Boise River. This military outpost emerged during the height of the gold…
- 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…
- Sacramento, CaliforniaBefore the first European foot touched the soil, Nisenan and Maidu people lived along the confluence of the Sacramento and American Rivers for thousands of…
- 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…
- Phoenix, ArizonaThe Hohokam people occupied the Phoenix area for 2,000 years before vanishing from the region. They created roughly 150 miles of irrigation canals that…
- Columbus, OhioOn the 14th of February 1812, a dense forestland known as Wolf's Ridge became the birthplace of Columbus. This location sat at the confluence of the Scioto…
- Richmond, VirginiaIn early 1737, planter William Byrd II commissioned Major William Mayo to lay out the original town grid for a settlement that would become Richmond.
- Oklahoma CityOn the 22nd of April 1889, a crowd of roughly ten thousand people surged across the Unassigned Lands in Oklahoma. They raced to claim plots of land that had…
- Providence, Rhode IslandRoger Williams arrived in the area that would become Providence in June 1636. He was a Puritan theologian banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for his…
- Columbia, South CarolinaIn May 1540, a Spanish expedition led by Hernando de Soto traversed what is now Columbia while moving northward on exploration of the interior of the…
- Trenton, New JerseyThe Lenape Native Americans, specifically the Axion band, inhabited the area that would become Trenton during the mid-17th century.
- Frankfort, KentuckyIn 1780, a group of settlers from Bryan Station walked toward Mann's Lick to make salt. They followed an ancient buffalo trail that crossed the Kentucky…
- BostonIn 1630, English Puritan settlers led by John Winthrop arrived on the Shawmut Peninsula to establish a new settlement. Isaac Johnson named this place Boston…
- Salt Lake CityIn July 1847, a group of Mormon pioneers entered the Salt Lake Valley under the leadership of Brigham Young. They sought refuge from persecution in the…
- AtlantaIn 1836, the Georgia General Assembly voted to build the Western and Atlantic Railroad. Engineers drove a zero milepost into the ground on what is now…