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There are many ways to define when a city was founded. To determine the oldest city in every state, we did our best to remain consistent in defining the founding of a city by the year of its first settlement — when people arrived and established a place.
The unfortunate reality is that many towns that were "founded" were home to Native American communities dating back thousands of years, the members of which were expelled or wiped out by colonizing settlers who claimed the land as their own. Читать дальше...