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Ashville is a city [2] in and one of the county seats of St. Clair County, Alabama, United States, [3] other seat being Pell City. Its population was 2,212 at the 2010 census , down from 2,260, at which time it was a town.
The Territory of Alabama (sometimes Alabama Territory) was an organized incorporated territory of the United States. The Alabama Territory was carved from the Mississippi Territory on August 15, 1817 [ 2 ] and lasted until December 14, 1819, when it was admitted to the Union as the twenty-second state.
St. Clair County is a county located in the central portion of the U.S. state of Alabama. [1] As of the 2020 census, the population was 91,103. [2] It has two county seats: Ashville and Pell City. [3] It is one of two counties in Alabama, and one of 33 in the United States, with more than one county seat.
Founded by a group led by William Houlton and John King. 1654: Pelham: New York: United States: Founded by Thomas Pell, who purchased 9,000 acres (14 sq mi) from the Siwanoy tribe and received a land grant from the English crown. 1655: Cap-Saint-Ignace: Quebec: Canada [24] 1655: Chelmsford: Massachusetts: United States: Founded by settlers from ...
1725 map of Mobile, Alabama's first permanent European settlement. The French also colonized the region. In 1702 they founded a settlement on the Mobile River near its mouth, constructing Fort Louis. For the next nine years this was the French seat of government of New France, or La Louisiane . In 1711, they abandoned Fort Louis because of ...
1635 - nSaybrook Colony founded. 1636 – Connecticut Colony founded. 1636 - Roger Williams founds the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. 1636 - Harvard University founded, oldest English university in America. 1637 – The Pequot War results in the killing of many of the Pequot people. * * 1637 - New Haven Colony is founded.
The colony's capital of New Amsterdam was founded in 1625 and located at the southern tip of the island of Manhattan, which grew to become a major world city. The city was captured by the English in 1664; they took complete control of the colony in 1674 and renamed it New York .
The United States of America was formed after thirteen British colonies in North America declared independence from the British Empire on July 4, 1776. In the Lee Resolution , passed by the Second Continental Congress two days prior, the colonies resolved that they were free and independent states.