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  2. New Sweden - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. The Printzhof - Wikipedia

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    She subsequently sold the estate a second time and returned to Sweden where she died on November 25, 1695, at Läckö Castle. [4] Today, the Printzhof's stone foundations are the only remains of the settlement. The Printzhof site is located near the intersection of Taylor Avenue and Second Street in Essington, Pennsylvania.

  4. Fort Christina - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. C. A. Nothnagle Log House - Wikipedia

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    Doris Rink sold the Log Cabin and adjoining property in 2024 to a real estate developer named Stephen Laszczyk who owns many properties in the area. Rink stated, "I want to get it into the hands of someone who is capable and loving and willing enough to put as much works into it as my husband and I have over the years," but efforts to sell to ...

  6. Upland Court - Wikipedia

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    Chester Court House. Upland Court was the governing body of the New Sweden colony following Dutch West India Company annexation from Swedish colonial rule. In 1655, Peter Stuyvesant, governor of the Dutch colony, allowed the colonists to remain an independent Swedish nation through Upland Court, allowing freedom of religion, organization of their own militia, while maintaining their land and ...

  7. This idyllic Swedish town is selling off land for the price ...

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    Götene, a town in rural Sweden, is selling plots of land for just 9 US cents per square meter, to encourage new residents to come and build their dream homes.