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March 3: Florida was admitted to the Union as the 27th U.S. state. May 26: Florida Legislature is formed succeeding the Florida Territorial Legislative Council. June 25: Florida's first elected governor, William Dunn Moseley takes office. 1848 January 8: Holmes County is established. 1849 January 18: Putnam County is established.
Salem is an unincorporated community in Taylor County, Florida, United States. The community is located on U.S. Route 19 , 19 miles (31 km) southeast of Perry . Salem has a post office with ZIP code 32356, which opened on April 16, 1915.
The history of Florida can be traced to when the first Paleo-Indians began to inhabit the peninsula as early as 14,000 years ago. [1] They left behind artifacts and archeological remains. Florida's written history begins with the arrival of Europeans; the Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León in 1513 made the first textual records.
The incident was investigated months later by a Federal Mediation Commission set up by President Woodrow Wilson; the Commission found that no federal law applied, and referred the case to the State of Arizona, which failed to take any action, citing patriotism and support for the war as justification for the vigilantes' action.
Spain established several small outposts in Florida in the early 16th century. The most important of these was St. Augustine, founded alongside Mission Nombre de Dios in 1565 but repeatedly attacked and burned by pirates, privateers, and English forces, and nearly all the Spanish left after the Treaty of Paris (1763) ceded Florida to Great Britain.
Native Americans lived in northeastern Massachusetts for thousands of years prior to European colonization of the Americas.The peninsula that would become Salem was known as Naumkeag (alternate spellings Naemkeck, [9] Nahumkek, [10] Neumkeage [11]) by the native people who lived there at the time of contact in the early 1600s.
While historians are uncertain as to some of the details, it is believed that Pike was the local constable and he deputised an eager Barefoote, who then "misused" his authority to free the women. In any case, over 200 years later, the Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier immortalised this cruel episode in his poem, "How the Women Went from Dover ...
1626. English settlers arrive. [1]1629. Town of Salem incorporated. [2]Salem Common during the winter Brick sidewalk Salem, Massachusetts. 1636. First muster on Salem Common. This was the first time that a regiment of militia drilled for the common defense of a multi-community area, [3] thus laying the foundation for what became the Army National Guard.