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 …

Feb 18, 2011 · In the days before New Jersey, when the British were still busy colonizing New England and Virginia, and the Dutch controlled New Netherland, which stretched from Toms …

The colony eventually consisted of farms and small settlements along both banks of the Delaware River into modern Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Maryland. New Sweden rose to …

Jul 25, 2017 · For nearly 20 years in the 17th century, Sweden had a little‑known colony that spanned parts of Delaware, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

European colonization of New Jersey started soon after the 1609 exploration of its coast and bays by Henry Hudson. Dutch and Swedish colonists settled parts of the present-day state as New …

After 1655 the Swedish flag no longer flew overheard, but the Swedish and Finnish colonists remained as the majority population in Delaware, Southeastern Pennsylvania and Southern …

Jun 6, 2014 · Swedes and Finns settled the Delaware Valley in 1638. In 1641, Governor Peter Ridder purchased land from the Lenape Indians where, some 30 years later, Swedish and …

IN EARLY NEW JERSEY In 1988 the people of the United States, Sweden, and Finland celebrated the 350th anniversary of the founding of the New Sweden colony on the banks of …

Trenton: New Jersey Historical Commission, 1992. “The First Foundations” (Arrival of the Dutch, the Land and the Natives, the Dutch Settle in New Jersey, the Swedes on the Delaware)

Aug 8, 2022 · The Swedish Farmstead was originally built in 1988 as a living history museum in Bridgeton, New Jersey, in order to commemorate the 350th anniversary of the founding of …