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Spain ruled St. Augustine for more than 200 years. Some historians believe that Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León visited what is now the St. Augustine area in 1513. During the late 1500's, St. Augustine served as Spain's military headquarters in North America.
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It was a lost colony because everyone left the lost colony
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was the first permanent English settlement in North America.
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The Mayflower, the ship that carried the Pilgrims to North America in 1620, also sailed from Plymouth.
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English colonists founded the settlement that later became Williamsburg. They chose the site because it had fewer mosquitoes and better soil drainage for crops than did the area around Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in America
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Will penn (the founder) called it pennsylvania of his last name
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was the only Swedish colony in America. It extended along the Delaware River from the mouth of Delaware Bay
