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  2. Colonial history of Missouri - Wikipedia

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    Early settlements in Missouri Settlement Founding Mine La Motte: 1717 settlement Ste. Genevieve: 1750, 1735-1785 [21] [22] St. Louis [17] [23] 1764 Carondelet: 1767, St. Louis annex 1870 St. Charles: 1769 Mine à Breton: 1770, 1760-1780 [24] New Madrid: 1783, 1789 [25] [26] Florissant: 1786 Commerce: 1788 Cape Girardeau: 1792 Wolf Island: 1792

  3. History of Missouri - Wikipedia

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    The history of Missouri begins with settlement of the region by indigenous people during the Paleo-Indian period beginning in about 12,000 BC. Subsequent periods of native life emerged until the 17th century. New France set up small settlements, and in 1803, Napoleonic France sold the area to the U.S. as part of the Louisiana Purchase.

  4. History of St. Louis - Wikipedia

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    Map of the British and French settlements in North America in 1750, before the French and Indian War (1754 to 1763). The earliest settlements in the middle Mississippi Valley were built in the 10th century by the people of the Mississippian culture, who constructed more than two dozen platform mounds within the area of the future European-American city.

  5. Boonslick - Wikipedia

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    Louis was also a major settlement town since the 17th and 18th century era along with the nearby, across the river upstream to the east, of French colonial settlements Kaskaskia and Cahokia in the adjacent Illinois Country of the New France colonial empire of the old Kingdom of France, leading from its capital in Quebec (in future Canada) in ...

  6. Long-hidden family scandal in Jamestown colony revealed 400 ...

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    An investigation of human remains from the 17th century British settlement in Jamestown, Virginia, has unearthed a long-hidden scandal in the family of the colony’s first governor.

  7. Colonial history of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The British economy had begun to grow rapidly at the end of the 17th century and, by the mid-18th century, small factories in Britain were producing much more than the nation could consume. Britain found a market for their goods in the British colonies of North America, increasing her exports to that region by 360% between 1740 and 1770.

  8. Plantation (settlement or colony) - Wikipedia

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    A 17th-century map of the Plantations of New England. Beginning in the 15th century with the voyages of Christopher Columbus, various European colonial powers established colonies in the Americas. The Portuguese introduced Sugar plantations in the Caribbean in the 1550s.

  9. History of St. Louis (1763–1803) - Wikipedia

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    The history of St. Louis, Missouri from 1763 to 1803 was marked by the transfer of French Louisiana to Spanish control, the founding of the city of St. Louis, its slow growth and role in the American Revolution under the rule of the Spanish, the transfer of the area to American control in the Louisiana Purchase, and its steady growth and prominence since then.