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The Popham Colony—also known as the Sagadahoc Colony—was a short-lived English colonial settlement in North America. It was established in 1607 by the proprietary Plymouth Company and was located in the present-day town of Phippsburg, Maine , near the mouth of the Kennebec River .
Popham Colony fared better than Jamestown in the cold winter of 1607, and their president, George Popham, was the only colonist who died. [7] Fifty colonists returned to England that December. Leadership fell to second-in-command Raleigh Gilbert for six months, until a supply ship in autumn 1608 brought news that he had inherited a title and ...
That stray account of the 1607 encounters in Popham Colony in present-day midcoast Maine — 14 years before the Plymouth one, whose bowdlerized story was taught to generations of schoolchildren ...
Popham Colony: Maine United States Short-lived settlement, a Plymouth Company project 1607: Santa Fe: New Mexico: United States: Oldest continuously inhabited state capital in the US 1608: Québec: Quebec: Canada Originally settled by Jacques Cartier in 1535, who abandoned it in 1536. He returned in 1541, but abandoned the site again.
Merged into the Massachusetts Bay Colony, then into the Dominion of New England in 1686, and absorbed by the Province of Massachusetts Bay in 1692 -Popham: Fort St. George: 1607-1608: Proprietary colony: Abandoned -Sagadahock-1608/9-1691: Proprietary colony: Incorporated in Province of Massachusetts Bay in 1691 -Wessagusset: Weymouth: 1622-1623 ...
Dixie Cup Plant: Now. A giant Dixie Cup still rests atop the abandoned building, rusty and empty of the 40,000 gallons of water it once held. The owner hoped to turn the building into 128,000 ...
During the 14 months the colony existed, the colonists completed a major project: the construction of a 30-ton ship, a pinnace, called Virginia. It was the first known ocean-going ship to be built in what would later become the United States of America by Europeans. It was also meant to show that the colony could be used for shipbuilding.
Here are six abandoned historic homes for sale that you can buy right now. Located in the quaint town of Milton, North Carolina, the Gordon-Brandon House was possibly built circa 1850 by a local ...