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Second-oldest continuously inhabited European-settled capital city in South America. The oldest being Quito. Vila Velha, Espírito Santo: Governorate General of Brazil Brazil: 1535 AD Second-oldest continuously inhabited Portuguese-settled village in South America. The oldest being São Vicente. Cali: New Granada Colombia: 1536 AD
First city founded by Europeans on the continent of South America. 1510 Nombre de Dios: Colon: Panama Oldest continuously inhabited European established settlement in Panama. 1511 Baracoa: Guantánamo: Cuba Oldest continuously inhabited European established settlement in Cuba, former capital of Cuba. 1513 Bayamo: Granma: Cuba 1514 Sancti ...
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 ...
Mexico City. 1325 A.D. Today, Mexico City is known as the capital and largest city of Mexico, plus it is the most populous city in North America with some 22 million people.
The city has a privately funded Freedom Trail of historic sites of the civil rights movement, [130] and a museum at the Fort Mose site, the location of the 1738 free black community. [ 131 ] [ 132 ] Historic Excelsior School, built in 1925 as the first public high school for blacks in St. Augustine, [ 133 ] has been adapted as the city's first ...
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In America, it is the oldest of the pre-Hispanic civilizations, developing 1,500 years earlier than the Olmec civilization, the first Mesoamerican complex society. [4] Closely related to the city of Caral was an early fishing city, Áspero or El Áspero, located on the coast near the mouth of the Supe River. There, remains of human sacrifices ...
Oldest house in New York City. [22] Brooke Place Manor: Calvert County: MD 1652 Residential Oldest building in Maryland. [23] Loomis Homestead: Windsor: CT 1653 Residential One of the oldest timber-frame houses in America. The oldest part of the house was built between 1640 and 1653 by Joseph Loomis, who came to Connecticut Colony from England ...