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Map of North America (1621). ... Jamestown was founded in the Virginia Colony on May 14, 1607 ... passing Cape May and Cape Henlopen in late March 1638, ...
Cape May Canal is a 2.9-nautical-mile (3.3 mi; 5.4 km) waterway connecting Cape May Harbor to the Delaware Bay, at the southern tip of Cape May County, New Jersey. [4] Before the canal was built, "Cape Island" referred to the site of the City of Cape May, southeast of Cape Island Creek, a tidal "creek" and marsh that has been partly filled in ...
A 1777 map depicting Cape May County, ... Cape May grew independently as America's oldest bathing resort by 1765, ... later renamed Cape May Point, was founded in 1875.
The Cape May Branch of the Cape May County Public Library is located in Cape May City. [146] The library was previously in city hall but later moved to a standalone building. In 2009 an estimated $507,800 renovation was to take place with $395,300, or about 78% of the expenses, paid by Cape May County. [ 147 ]
A 1584 map of the east coast from Chesapeake Bay to Cape Lookout, drawn by the English colonial governor, explorer, artist, and cartographer John White; in 1607, Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement, was established in this region. Province of Massachusetts Bay, chartered as a royal colony in 1691
too small to map: December 29, 1934 Kingman Reef was placed under the jurisdiction of the United States Department of the Navy. [384] no change to map: November 15, 1935 The Insular Government of the Philippine Islands was dissolved and replaced with the Commonwealth of the Philippines. [401] [402] Pacific Ocean: March 16, 1936
The colony's capital of New Amsterdam was founded in 1625 and located at the southern tip of the island of Manhattan, which grew to become a major world city. The city was captured by the English in 1664; they took complete control of the colony in 1674 and renamed it New York .
British North America. Colony of British Columbia (1858–1866) ... Cape Colony; Colonial Nigeria. ... Map of the European Union in the world, ...