Author: Bill ShatzerBill Shatzer Date: May 29, 2007 20:46
hal lillywhite wrote:
> chupacabra wrote:
>>Santa Fe is the 2nd oldest city in North America dating to 1515.
> Only if you're ethnocentric about it. Actually it's the oldest, having
> been continuously occupied since long before the White man arrived in
> the area.
> Now if you count only Europeans, it is the second oldest, but it was
> there long before the Europeans arrived.
If (European) Santa Fe truly dates to 1615, it's behind St Augustine
(1585) and Jamestown (1607).
Although I can't find a reference to the 1615 date and most references
give either 1608 or 1610 as the founding date for Santa Fe which would
still leave it only third oldest.
One reference gives 1607 which would leave Santa Fe tenatively tied with
Jamestown, pending an exact month and day.
Jamestown's founding is dated to May 14, 1607.
Peace and justice,
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