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Juan Ponce de Leon is credited with first discovering Florida but never settled or lived there. The first settlement was established in 1559 by Tristan de Luna y Arellano in what is now Pensacola.

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The first English civilization was in Jamestown, Virginia. It was founded in 1607. The Spanish were the first to settle in central and southern America.

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