Oldest North American Settlements
Oldest North American Settlements
Oldest American Settlement entries refer to the first permanent settlements. Alabama by the French in the
North Carolina Bath, 1705, Mobile area around 1702
Indiana Vincennes in 1702 on
after the loss of Roanoke Is- Alaska Three Saints Bay, Ko-
the Wabash River
land’s settlers diak Island, founded in 1784
Iowa Dubuque, 1834
North Dakota Pembina, 1851 by Grigori Shelekhov
Kansas Fort Leavenworth,
Ohio Marietta, 1788 American Samoa Pago Pago
Oklahoma Salina settled in the settled 4,000 years ago on Tu-
Kentucky Harrodsburg, 1774,
early 1800s tuila Island
southwest of Lexington
Oregon fur-trading post estab- American Virgin Islands S t
Los Angeles Nuestra Señora la
lished in 1811 by John Jacob Thomas Island’s port of Char-
Reina de los Angeles de Por-
Astor at the mouth of the Co- lotte Amalie built by the Dan-
ciuncula (Our Lady of the
lumbia River and the site of ish in 1672
Angels of Porciuncula), 1781
Astoria Arizona Tombstone, the old
Louisiana N a t c h i t o c h e s
Pennsylvania Tinicurn Island, mining town booming in the
founded by the French in
south of Philadephia, founded 1880s
by the Swedes in 1643 Arkansas Arkansas Post estab-
Maine Phippsburg, 1607, at the
Puerto Rico San Juan settled lished by French settlers in
mouth of the Kennebec River
by Ponce de León in 1521 1686 east-southeast of Pine
Maryland St Mary’s 1634
Rhode Island Providence set- Bluff on Arkansas River
Massachusetts P l y m o u t h ,
tled by Roger Williams in California San Diego de Alcalá
1620 Michigan Fort Ponchartrain,
1636 founded in 1769 by Padre Junípero Serra
1701, at the site of what is
San Francisco San Francisco
de Asís, now called Mission Colorado Denver, 1858
now Detroit
Dolores, founded in 1776 by the Spanish
Connecticut Hartford, founded
Minnesota Fort Snelling on the
as a Dutch trading post by
Seattle began as a lumber town Adriaen Block in 1633
site of Minneapolis, 1820
in 1852 Delaware Wilmington, called
Mississippi Biloxi Bay, 1699 Missouri Sainte Genevieve,
South Carolina C h a r l e s t o n Fort Christina by the Swedes,
1680 in 1638
1735 Montana Virginia City, 1850
South Dakota Fo r t P i e r r e , District of Columbia c o r n e r-
1817 stone of the capitol’s north
Nebraska Bellevue, 1823
Tennessee Jonesboro, 1779 wing laid by President Wash-
Nevada Genoa, 1849, near
close to the site of Johnson ington on September 18, 1793
what is now Carson City
City Florida St Augustine, founded
New Hampshire Dover, 1624
Texas Ysleta, 1681, close to El by the Spanish in 1565
New Jersey C o m m u n i p aw,
Paso Georgia Savannah settled by
Utah Salt Lake City, 1847 the English under James
New Mexico Pueblo San Juan,
Vermont Fort Dummer, near Oglethrope in 1733
Burlington, 1724 Guam Agaña settled by the
New Orleans platted in 1718
Virginia Jamestown, 1607 Spanish in 1668
by the Sieur de Bienville,
Washington Fort Okanogan, Hawaii Honolulu, discovered
made capital of Louisiana in
1888 by Captain Cook in 1778
West Virginia R o m n ey a n d Idaho David Thompson estab-
New York New Amsterdam,
Sheperdston, 1762 lished first trading post in
1644 on the southern tip of
Wisconsin Green Bay, 1701 1809
Manhattan Island
Wyoming Fort Laramie, 1834, Illinois Fort Crève Coeur in
North America St Augustine,
a fur-trading post near Chey- 1680 near Peoria
Florida founded by the Span-
ish in 1565
enne
Phobias