It was Swedish explorers who decided this land was "New Sweden" and established the settlement there in 1638.
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Spain, in 1500s. St. Augustine was the first permanent European settlement in North America. Spain lost the colony to Britain in 1763 but regained it after the American Revolution.
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The first European settlers in America were 39 men left behind by Columbus when one of his three ships sank off Hispaniola at the beginning of the return voyage in 1492. However, when he returned a year letter, the settlement had been burned to the ground and all the men were dead. The Spanish founded Santo Domingo, their first permanent settlement, on the Island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean in 1496. The first permanent settlement on the mainland of South America was also Spanish, Santa Maria la Antigua del Darien in Panama, founded by Balboa in 1510. 55 years later the first European settlement in North America was founded, also by the Spanish, St. Augustine, Florida (1565). More than forty years went by after that before the English founded Jamestown, Virginia (1607), their first permanent settlement. They were followed by the French founding of Quebec in 1608 and the Dutch founding of New Amsterdam (New York City) in 1624.
From my reasearch it seems that the first post explorer settlement located in Colorado was around 1299 A.D. In the Mesa Verde region there is found what is called the Prehistoric Cliff Dwelling Civilization that can still be seen today.
the first European settlers in the United States were SpanishAnswerthe first European settlers in the United States were Spanish NO WAY REALLY????
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the first permanent european settlement in the present-day us is Alaska
Delaware's first settlement was Zwannendael. Settled by the Dutch in 1631, near what is present day the town of Lewes,Sussex County. It lasted less than a year. In 1632 when the ships captain returned to the colony, all were found dead. In 1638, the Swedes settled on the rocks on the Christiana River near the foot of 7th street, Wilmington. This was the first permanent European settlement in the Delaware Valley.
The first European permanent settlement was settled by the French. (St. Genevieve, MO)
the first permanent european settlement in the present-day us is Alaska
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St. Augustine, Florida, a Spanish settlement.
The Dutch immigrants arrived at the southern trip of the contiment. They built CApe Town, the first permanent European settlement in Africa.
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The first permanent settlement by Europeans on North American was St. Augustine, FL in 1565. The first English settlement was Jamestown, VA in 1607.
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