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New Sweden (Swedish: Nya Sverige) was a colony of the Swedish Empire between 1638 and 1655 along the lower reaches of the Delaware River in what is now Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Established during the Thirty Years' War when Sweden was a great power, New Sweden formed part of the Swedish efforts to colonize the Americas.
New Sweden was a Swedish colony founded by Peter Minuit in 1638 along the Delaware River. The colony, centered on Fort Christina , thrived for a number of years under the administration of Johan Printz , attracting Swedish and Finnish settlers who engaged in farming and fur trading with the Lenape and Susquehannock .
Swedish overseas colonies. Sweden established colonies in the Americas in the mid-17th century, including the colony of New Sweden (1638–1655) on the Delaware River in what is now Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Maryland, as well as two possessions in the Caribbean during the 18th and 19th centuries.
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. 1637 - nAnne Hutchinson expelled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. 1638 – Founding of New Sweden. First mention of slavery in the laws of the Province of ...
Fort Christina, also called Fort Altena, was the first Swedish settlement in North America and the principal settlement of the New Sweden colony. Built in 1638 and named after Christina, Queen of Sweden, it was located approximately 1 mi (1.6 km) east of the present-day downtown Wilmington, Delaware, at the confluence of the Brandywine River and the Christina River, approximately 2 mi (3 km ...
Sweden founded overseas colonies, principally in the New World. New Sweden was founded in the valley of the Delaware River in 1638, and Sweden later laid claim to a number of Caribbean islands. A string of Swedish forts and trading posts was constructed along the coast of West Africa as well, but these were not designed for Swedish settlers.
He was born in 1610, probably in Hammel, Denmark, and raised in Gothenburg, Sweden. He arrived in New Sweden in 1654 and is recorded as the first physician in Delaware. [10] [11] Founding of Wilmington stamp. (See New Sweden.) Old Town Hall, late-Georgian / early-Federal style
New Sweden Room – Gallery telling the story of life on the land on which the museum stands. The Stuga – Stuga means little house. This is a rendering of a 19th-century Swedish farmhouse interior. Nord Library – A research library with a collection focusing on the history of New Sweden and the 19th-century Swedish immigration.