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The history of Guam starts with the early arrival around 2000 BC of Austronesian people known today as the Chamorro Peoples. The Chamorus then developed a "pre-contact" society, that was colonized by the Spanish in the 17th century.
Guam's Point Udall is the westernmost point of the U.S., as measured from the geographic center of the United States. [36] [37] The Mariana chain, of which Guam is a part, was created by collision of the Pacific and Philippine Sea tectonic plates. Guam is located on the micro Mariana Plate between the two.
The Guampedia project was started in 2002 by the Guam Humanities Council with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the United States Department of the Interior. [1] [2] [3] It published 350 encyclopedia entries in April 2008. [1] In 2009, it became affiliated with the University of Guam and was registered as a non-profit ...
Map of Guam. This is a list of the buildings, sites, districts, and objects listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Guam.There are currently 134 listed sites spread across 17 of the 19 villages of Guam.
The set of structures are Guam's oldest concrete buildings. And the set is the only surviving group of pre- World War II houses in Agana, "the only fragment left of old Agana's urban space." While a few scattered other individual structures survive, all else has been destroyed by World War II, termites, typhoons Karen of 1962 and Pamela of 1976 ...
Tamuning, also known as Tamuning-Tumon-Harmon (Chamorro: Tamuneng), is a village located on the western shore of the United States territory of Guam. The village of Tamuning is the economic center of Guam, containing tourist center Tumon, Harmon Industrial Park, and other commercial districts. Its central location along Marine Corps Drive, the ...
Guam's size and possession of a natural safe anchorage at Apra Harbor, uniquely among its neighbors, have driven much of its history. [2] Guam was a minor but integral part of the Spanish Manila galleon trade. Located on the east-to-west trade winds, galleons from Mexico would briefly reprovision on Guam before continuing on to Manila.
Many villages have rich histories reaching back thousands of years. Artifacts from ancient Chamorro settlements can be found in every village of Guam. When the Spanish Empire colonized the Marianas Islands as part of its Pacific possessions in the 16th and 17th centuries, the island was divided into separate districts with each district consisting of a parish with a village center governed by ...