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Historical capitals in the United States of America; State Capital Date Notes Alabama [37] Statehood in 1819: San Agustín: 1565: Capital of the Spanish colony of La Florida. [g] Savannah (GA) 1733: Capital of the British proprietary Colony of Georgia. 1755: Capital of the British Province of Georgia. 1776: Capitals of the State of Georgia ...
This is a list of state and territorial capitols in the United States, the building or complex of buildings from which the government of each U.S. state, the District of Columbia, and the organized territories of the United States, exercise its authority.
Mackinaw City: Michigan: United States: Founded by the French as Fort Michilimackinac. 1714: Natchitoches: Louisiana: United States: Oldest settlement in the Louisiana Purchase 1714: Antonina: Paraná: Brazil 1715 (prior to) Kekionga: Indiana: United States: Capital of the Miami tribe. 1716: Natchez: Mississippi: United States: Dates to the ...
The suffix "-ville," from the French word for "city" is common for town and city names throughout the United States. Many originally French place names, possibly hundreds, in the Midwest and Upper West were replaced with directly translated English names once American settlers became locally dominant (e.g. "La Petite Roche" became Little Rock ...
The Old Senate Chamber is a room in the United States Capitol that was the legislative chamber of the United States Senate from 1810 to 1859, and served as the Supreme Court chamber from 1860 until 1935. This room was originally the lower half of the Old Senate Chamber from 1800 to 1806. After division of the chamber in two levels, this room ...
The United States expropriated from Panama additional areas around the soon-to-be-built Madden Dam and annexed them to the Panama Canal Zone. [365] [373] Caribbean Sea: May 3, 1932 The United States adjusted the border at Punta Paitilla in the Canal Zone, returning a small amount of land to Panama. This was the site for a planned new American ...
Long before the U.S. declared its independence on July 4, 1776, many European explorers had already founded lasting settlements. These are 10 of the oldest inhabited cities in the U.S. that you ...
United States portal These are capitals of political divisions of the United States of America The capital of the USA as a whole is Washington, D.C. , see Category:Washington, D.C.