- This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.
This is a list of cities in North America by founding year and present-day country.
Year | City | State or province | Country | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
1500 BC | Kaminaljuyu | Guatemala | Guatemala | |
1400 BC | Nakbe | Petén | Guatemala | |
950 BC | Takalik AbajTikal | Retalhuleu | Guatemala | |
950 BC | El Mirador | Petén | Guatemala | |
950 BC | Uaxactun | Petén | Guatemala | |
700 BC | Ticul | Yucatán | Mexico | |
600 BC | Tikal | Petén | Guatemala | |
500 BC | Cholula | Puebla | Mexico | |
300 BC | Teotihuacan | México | Mexico | In the Valley of Mexico |
200 | Mitla | Oaxaca | Mexico | |
650 | Cahokia | Illinois | United States | |
1000 | Acoma Pueblo and Taos Pueblo | New Mexico | United States | Oldest continuously occupied communities in the USA. The Acoma Pueblo today is known as Sky City. |
1003? | L'Anse aux Meadows | Newfoundland & Labrador | Canada | The Norse explorer Leif Ericson established a settlement at 51°N on this site in 1003. |
1050 | Motul | Yucatán | Mexico | |
1054 | Antiguo Cuscatlan | La Libertad | El Salvador | Cuscatlán was founded in 1054 by Topiltzin Atzil, last king of Tula of Anahuac. It was a city inhabited by ten thousand, with an additional twelve thousand people who lived in xacal, straw huts distributed at the edge of a maar (crater) which housed the sacred lake of Cuscatlan. In the contemporary Native language, Cuscatlán means Jewel City. On Saturday June 17, 1524, led by Pedro de Alvarado, the Spanish conquistadors found the doors of Cuscatlan, capital of the Lordship of Cuscatlan. |
1100 | Oraibi | Arizona | United States (Hopi Reservation) | |
1325 | Tenochtitlan | Distrito Federal | Mexico | Today this city is known as Mexico City |
1450 | Zuni Pueblo | New Mexico | United States | |
1498 | Santo Domingo | Distrito Nacional | Dominican Republic | Capital of the Dominican Republic. Oldest continuously inhabited European established settlement in the Americas. |
1508 | Caparra | Puerto Rico | ||
1510 | Nombre de Dios | Colón | Panama | Oldest continuously inhabited European established settlement in Panama. |
1511 | Baracoa | Guantánamo | Cuba | Oldest continuously inhabited European established settlement in Cuba, former capital of Cuba. |
1514 | Santiago | Santiago | Cuba | |
1515 | Havana | Havana | Cuba | Current Capital of Cuba |
1519 | La Villa Rica de la Vera Cruz, (Veracruz) | Veracruz | Mexico | Oldest continuously inhabited European established settlement in Mexico and continental America. |
1519 | Panama City | Panama | First European city on the Pacific coast of the Americas | |
1521 | San Juan | Puerto Rico | United States (unincorporated territory) | Oldest continuously inhabited European established settlement in Puerto Rico. |
1524 | Quetzaltenango | Guatemala | Guatemala | |
1525 | San Salvador | San Salvador Department | El Salvador | Diego de Holguín became the first mayor of San Salvador after the town was founded on April 1, 1525. Originally founded in what is now the archaeological site Ciudad Vieja, north of the present-day city, it was moved to the Valle de Las Hamacas or the Acelhuate Valley, named so due to the intense seismic activity that characterizes it. On January 2011 San Salvador was named the Iboeroamerican Capital of Culture because the first independent movements in Central America were played in San Salvador on November 5, 1811. |
1524 | Granada | Granada | Nicaragua | Oldest continuously inhabited European established settlement in Nicaragua. |
1526 | Acámbaro | Guanajuato | Mexico | |
1531 | Mazatlán | Sinaloa | Mexico | |
1531 | Culiacán | Sinaloa | Mexico | |
1532 | Oaxaca | Oaxaca | Mexico | |
1536 | San Pedro Sula | Cortés | Honduras | |
1540 | Childersburg | Alabama | United States | The Oldest City in America. |
1540 | Campeche | Campeche | Mexico | |
1542 | Yuriria | Guanajuato | Mexico | |
1542 | Mérida | Yucatán | Mexico | Founded by Francisco de Montejo over the ruins of the Mayan city T'ho. |
1542 | Guadalajara | Jalisco | Mexico | |
1542 | San Miguel de Allende | Guanajuato | Mexico | |
1543 | Santiago de los Caballeros de Guatemala (Antigua Guatemala) | Guatemala | ||
1550 | Acapulco | Guerrero | Mexico | Discovered by Cortés in 1531; settlement founded in 1550. |
1552 | San Luis de la Paz | Guanajuato | Mexico | |
1563 | Cartago | Cartago | Costa Rica | Oldest continuously inhabited European established settlement Costa Rica. |
1564 | Villa Hermosa de San Juan Bautista | Tabasco | México | The city was founded on June 24, 1564 (day of San Juan Bautista, hence its original name) by the Spanish Don Diego de Quijada |
1565 | Saint Augustine | Florida | United States | Oldest continuously inhabited European established settlement in the United States. |
1575 | Saltillo | Coahuila | Mexico | Oldest post-conquest settlement in northern Mexico. |
1575 | Aguascalientes | Aguascalientes | Mexico | |
1576 | León | Guanajuato | Mexico | |
1583 | St. John's | Newfoundland and Labrador | Canada | |
1583 | Harbour Grace | Newfoundland and Labrador | Canada | |
1585 | Roanoke Colony | Colony of Virginia | United States | Settlers first left on island August 17, 1585. |
1596 | Monterrey | Nuevo León | Mexico | |
1597 | Portobelo | Colón | Panama | |
1598 | Parras | Coahuila | Mexico | |
1599 | Tadoussac | Quebec | Canada | Oldest continuously inhabited French established settlement in the Americas, oldest European established settlement in Quebec. |
1603 | Salamanca | Guanajuato | Mexico | |
1605 | Port Royal | Nova Scotia | Canada | Established in the summer of 1605 by French colonizing explorers Pierre du Gua de Monts and Samuel de Champlain who, in 1608, would establish Quebec City. |
1607 | Jamestown | Virginia | United States | oldest colony in the original thirteen colonies comprising the United States of America |
1607 | Santa Fe | New Mexico | United States | Oldest continuously inhabited state capital in the US. |
1608 | Quebec City | Quebec | Canada | Original settlement on this site was established by Jacques Cartier in 1535 but abandoned in 1536. He returned in 1541 but abandoned the site again. Samuel de Champlain established a permanent settlement on July 3–4, 1608. Only completely garrison-walled city north of Mexico. |
1610 | Cupids | Newfoundland and Labrador | Canada | Oldest continuously occupied English settlement in Canada. |
1610 | Hampton | Virginia | United States | Oldest continuously occupied English settlement in the United States. |
1610 | Kecoughtan | Virginia | United States | |
1612 | St. George's | Bermuda | Oldest continuously inhabited European established settlement in Bermuda. | |
1613 | Newport News, Virginia | Virginia | United States | |
1614 | Albany, New York | New York | United States | Oldest settlement in the United States north of Virginia |
1620 | Plymouth | Massachusetts | United States | The oldest town in New England |
1622 | Weymouth | Massachusetts | United States | As Wessagussett, resettled and renamed in 1623 |
1623 | Dover | New Hampshire | United States | oldest settlement in New Hampshire |
1623 | Gloucester | Massachusetts | United States | |
1624 | Chelsea | Massachusetts | United States | originally called Winnisimmet |
1625 | New Amsterdam | New York | United States | Now New York City. |
1626 | Salem | Massachusetts | United States | |
1627 | Basseterre | Saint Kitts and Nevis | ||
1628 | Bridgetown | Barbados | ||
1629 | Lynn | United States | ||
1629 | Charlestown | Massachusetts | United States | |
1630 | Berwick | Maine | United States | Oldest continuously settled town in Maine. |
1630 | Jersey City, New Jersey | New Jersey | United States | Pavonia, first Dutch settlement in New Jersey |
1630 | Medford | Massachusetts | United States | Settled on the "Ford" by Meadow |
1630 | Boston | Massachusetts | United States | settled as New Towne, part of which became Cambridge, Massachusetts |
1631 | Saint John | New Brunswick | Canada | |
1631 | Lewes | Delaware | United States | Because Lewes was the earliest town founded in the state, and because Delaware was the first state to ratify the constitution, the town refers to itself as "The first town in the first state." |
1631 | Cambridge | Massachusetts | United States | Drake, Samuel Adams (1880). History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts. 1. Boston: Estes and Lauriat. pp. 305–16. http://books.google.com/books?id=QGolOAyd9RMC&pg=PA316&lpg=PA305&dq=newetowne&source=bl&ots=bWCYe4Smmz&sig=SqBiih-2JOSzUBFnLaYU72oUmBI&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=6&ct=result#PPA305,M1. Retrieved December 26, 2008. |
1632 | Williamsburg | Virginia | United States | |
1632 | St. John's | Antigua and Barbuda | ||
1633 | Windsor | Connecticut | United States | First English settlement in Connecticut. |
1634 | Green Bay | Wisconsin | United States | |
1634 | St. Mary's City | Maryland | United States | |
1634 | Trois-Rivières | Quebec | Canada | |
1634 | Willemstad | Curaçao | Kingdom of the Netherlands | Formerly Part of the now dissolved Netherlands Antilles, now autonomous constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (Not to be confused with one of its constituent countries, the Netherlands) |
1635 | Concord | Massachusetts | United States | |
1636 | Springfield | Massachusetts | United States | The Massachusetts Bay Colony's first Connecticut River port - and, by far, its westernmost settlement, sitting 85 miles west of the colonial capital at Boston. |
1636 | Providence | Rhode Island | United States | Oldest settlement in Rhode Island |
1637 | Hartford | Connecticut | United States | |
1637 | Taunton | Massachusetts | United States | |
1637 | Sandwich | Massachusetts | United States | Oldest town on Cape Cod |
1638 | Exeter | New Hampshire | United States | One of the four original towns of New Hampshire. Revolutionary War Capital of New Hampshire and site of the ratification of the first state constitution in the North American colonies in January 1776. |
1638 | Swedesboro | New Jersey | United States | Nucleus of the New Sweden colony that spread along the Delaware River into Pennsylvania and Delaware. |
1638 | New Haven | Connecticut | United States | |
1638 | Wilmington | Delaware | United States | Grew from Fort Christina, part of the New Sweden colony. Originally called Willington. |
1639 (prior to) | St. Marks | Florida | United States | |
1639 | Stratford | Connecticut | United States | |
1639 | Newport | Rhode Island | United States | |
1639 | Sudbury | Massachusetts | United States | |
1640 | Woburn | Massachusetts | United States | First settled in 1640, incorporated in 1642 |
1641 | Haverhill | Massachusetts | United States | First settled in 1640, incorporated 1641 |
1642 | Montreal | Quebec | Canada | |
1642 | Lexington | Massachusetts | United States | |
1643 | Basse-Terre | Guadeloupe | Territorial capital. | |
1643 | Dolores Hidalgo | Guanajuato | Mexico | |
1643 | Guilford | Connecticut | United States | |
1644 | Salvatierra | Guanajuato | Mexico | |
1646 | Andover | Massachusetts | United States | The original Andover, founded by Simon and Anne Bradstreet along with the Barker, Osgood, Stevens, Woodbridge and other families, broke into two separate towns April 7, 1855. |
1646 | New London | Connecticut | United States | |
1647 | Kittery | Maine | United States | Oldest incorporated town in Maine. |
1649 | Annapolis | Maryland | United States | |
1651 | Medfield | Massachusetts | United States | http://www.town.medfield.net/index.cfm?pid=12391 |
1651 | New Castle | Delaware | United States | Grew from Fort Casimir |
1653 | Lancaster | Massachusetts | United States | |
1654 | Pelham | New York | United States | Founded by Thomas Pell who purchased 9000 acres from Siwanoy Indians and received a land grant from the English Crown |
1655 | Chelmsford | Massachusetts | United States | Founded by settlers from Concord. The area currently encompassed by Chelmsford, Lowell, Westford, Carlisle and to a certain extent Dracut, were all originally part of Chelmsford. Westford seceded in 1729. Carlisle fully became a part of Concord in 1780, seceding from that town in 1805. Lowell would be formed under extraordinary circumstances when the Boston Associates purchased East Chelmsford to serve as a planned factory town, incorporated as Lowell in 1826. Dracut's relationship to Chelmsford is less clear cut, however the relationship of the two towns in the 17th century resembles a slightly imperial one as Dracut, while a separate entity, was largely dependent on Chelmsford, particularly the West Dracut area, near the old boundary of East Chelmsford. |
1655 | Groton | Massachusetts | United States | |
1655 | Billerica | Massachusetts | United States | |
1659 | Ciudad Juárez | Chihuahua | Mexico | |
1659 | Jamestown | Saint Helena | ||
1660 | Placentia | Newfoundland | Canada | French Capital unil 1713, originally called Plaisance |
1660 | Rye | New York | United States | |
1662 | Uxbridge | Massachusetts | United States | |
1664 | Schenectady | New York | United States | |
1665 | Port-de-Paix | Nord-Ouest Department | Haiti | |
1666 | Newark | New Jersey | United States | |
1666 | Piscatawaytown | New Jersey | United States | One of the first five New Jersey settlements. Now part of Edison, NJ |
1668 | Sault Ste. Marie | Michigan | United States | , oldest city in Michigan. |
1669 | Westfield | Massachusetts | United States | |
1670 | Charleston | South Carolina | United States | |
1670 | Wallingford | Connecticut | United States | |
1673 | Kingston | Ontario | Canada | Grew from Fort Frontenac. |
1674 | Waterbury | Connecticut | United States | |
1680 | Ysleta | Texas | United States | |
1680 | South Orange | New Jersey | United States | Grew from Newark (later Orange). |
1680 | Peoria | Illinois | United States | First European settlement in Illinois. Originally Fort Crevecoeur, later Fort Clark (1813), renamed Peoria in 1823. |
1681 | Cockburn Town | Turks and Caicos Islands | ||
1682 | Philadelphia | Pennsylvania | United States | |
1682 | Norfolk | Virginia | United States | |
1683 | Dover | Delaware | United States | |
1685 | Prairie du Chien | Wisconsin | United States | |
1687 | New Britain | Connecticut | United States | |
1693 | Kingston | Jamaica | ||
1693 | Burlington | New Jersey | United States | |
1694 | Newark | Delaware | United States | |
1696 | Rimouski | Quebec | Canada | |
1698 | Pensacola | Florida | United States | |
1699 | Biloxi | Mississippi | United States | |
1701 | Detroit | Michigan | United States | |
1702 | Mobile | Alabama | United States | |
1703 | Kaskaskia | Illinois | United States | |
1705 | Bath | North Carolina | United States | Oldest incorporated town in North Carolina. |
1706 | Albuquerque | New Mexico | United States | |
1709 | Chihuahua | Chihuahua | Mexico | |
1710 | Chatham | New Jersey | United States | On land purchased in 1680. |
1710 | New Bern | North Carolina | United States | Settled initially by German-Swiss immigrants. |
1714 | Natchitoches | Louisiana | United States | Oldest settlement in the Louisiana Purchase |
1714 | Freehold | New Jersey | United States | Originally called Monmouth Courthouse, the site of the Battle of Monmouth |
1715 (prior to) | Kekionga | Indiana | United States | Capital of the Miami tribe. |
1716 | Nacogdoches | Texas | United States | Spanish mission established about 1716 in a much older Caddo village. |
1716 | Natchez | Mississippi | United States | Dates to the founding of Fort Rosalie by the French. |
1718 | New Orleans | Louisiana | United States | |
1718 | San Antonio | Texas | United States | |
1719 | Trenton | New Jersey | United States | |
1719 | Baton Rouge | Louisiana | United States | |
1721 | Cortazar | Guanajuato | Mexico | |
1722 | Prairie Du Rocher | Illinois | United States | |
1723 | Beaufort | North Carolina | United States | |
1725 | Concord | New Hampshire | United States | |
1728 | Fredericksburg | Virginia | United States | |
1729 | Baltimore | Maryland | United States | |
1732 | Vincennes | Indiana | United States | |
1733 | Richmond | Virginia | United States | History - Richmond (VA) website Economic History - Richmond (VA) website |
1733 | Savannah | Georgia | United States | |
1735 | Ste. Genevieve | Missouri | United States | French-Colonial settlement. Oldest continually-inhabited settlement in Missouri. |
1738 | Fort Rouge | Manitoba | Canada | Now Winnipeg, Manitoba. |
1741 | Bethlehem | Pennsylvania | United States | |
1749 | Alexandria | Virginia | United States | |
1749 | Port-au-Prince | Ouest Department | Haiti | |
1749 | Halifax | Nova Scotia | Canada | |
1749 | Windsor | Ontario | Canada | Oldest continually-inhabited settlement in Canada west of Montreal |
1750 | Erie | Pennsylvania | United States | Grew from the French Fort Presque Isle. |
1750 | Rock Island | Illinois | United States | Originally Saukenuk |
1751 | Georgetown | Maryland | United States | Originally in Maryland; became part of the District of Columbia when the District was organized in 1801. Georgetown and its government were incorporated into the District government in 1871. |
1754 | Augusta | Maine | United States | |
1755 | Charlotte | North Carolina | United States | |
1758 | Pittsburgh | Pennsylvania | United States | |
1761 | Charlottesville | Virginia | United States | |
1762 | Shepherdstown | West Virginia | United States | Originally known as Mecklenburg. |
1762 | Allentown | Pennsylvania | United States | Incorporated as Northamptontown. |
1763 | St. Louis | Missouri | United States | |
1763 | Burlington | Vermont | United States | |
1768 | New Smyrna Beach | Florida | United States | Scottish entrepreneur Dr. Turnbull established a colony of 1,225 immigrants at New Smyrna. |
1769 | Santa Cruz | California | United States | |
1769 | San Diego | California | United States | Grew from Presidio of San Diego. |
1770 | Monterey | California | United States | Grew from Presidio of Monterey. Original capital of California |
1770 | San Blas | Nayarit | Mexico | Spanish Naval Department headquarters established at San Blas. |
1772 | Ellicott City | Maryland | United States | |
1773 | Guatemala City | Guatemala | ||
1774 | Unalaska | Alaska | United States | Oldest Russian settlement of Aleutian Islands, dating to the 1760s. Permanent trading post established in 1774. |
1774 | Orizaba | Veracruz | Mexico | In 1174, Charles IV grants the title of Villa, but the city was already a Spanish settlement since times of Cortez |
1775 | Tucson | Arizona | United States | The town of Tucson had existed for over 2000 years at this point but this is the date the Spanish built a presidio and formally recognized the town |
1775 | Lexington | Kentucky | United States | |
1775 | Boonesborough | Kentucky | United States | Grew from Fort Boonesborough, built by pioneer Daniel Boone. |
1776 | San Francisco | California | United States | |
1777 | San Jose | California | United States | Originally known as El Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe, the first town in the Spanish colony of Nueva California, which later became Alta California. |
1778 | Louisville | Kentucky | United States | Grew from Fort Nelson, established by explorer George Rogers Clark. |
1779 | Jonesborough | Tennessee | United States | Later organized as the lost State of Franklin with Jonesborough as capital 1784. |
1779 | Nashville | Tennessee | United States | Grew from Fort Nashborough |
1781 | Montpelier | Vermont | United States | |
1781 | Los Angeles | California | United States | |
1784 | Frenchtown | Michigan | United States | Third French settlement in Michigan |
1785 | Harrisburg | Pennsylvania | United States | |
1785 | Asheville | North Carolina | United States | |
1785 | Dubuque | Iowa | United States | Oldest city in Iowa, among oldest European settlements west of the Mississippi River. |
1786 | Columbia | South Carolina | United States | |
1786 | Florissant | Missouri | United States | Originally known as St. Ferdinand. |
1786 | Frankfort | Kentucky | United States | |
1786 | Portland | Maine | United States | |
1788 | Marietta | Ohio | United States | First permanent American settlement in the Northwest Territory |
1788 | Cincinnati | Ohio | United States | |
1788 | Charleston | West Virginia | United States | Grew from Fort Lee. |
1789 | Buffalo | New York | United States | |
1790 | Washington | District of Columbia | United States | |
1791 | Monroe | Louisiana | United States | Originally known as Fort Miro. |
1791 | Kenai | Alaska | United States | Grew from Fort St. Nicholas of the Russian-American Company. |
1791 | Knoxville | Tennessee | United States | |
1791 | Bangor | Maine | United States | |
1792 | Kodiak | Alaska | United States | Founded in 1792 by Alexander Baranov as the new site for at Three Saints Bay, originally founded in 1784. |
1792 | Raleigh | North Carolina | United States | |
1793 | York | Ontario | Canada | First established as Fort Rouillé; now Toronto. |
1794 | Fort Wayne | Indiana | United States | |
1795 | Edmonton | Alberta | Canada | Grew from Fort Edmonton. |
1796 | Cleveland | Ohio | United States | |
1797 | Franklinton | Ohio | United States | Eventually absorbed by Columbus, Ohio. |
1798 | Shepherdstown | West Virginia | United States | Formerly known as Mecklenburg. |
1799 | Potosi | Missouri | United States | Town was founded by Moses Austin, the same person which founded Austin, Texas and was the sight of many small battles during the American Civil War |
1799 | Sitka | Alaska | United States | Original capital of Alaska, founded by the Russian-American Company in 1799, destroyed in 1802, reestablished in 1804. |
1800 | Buffalo | New York | United States | "In 1800, it was a town of four log cabins.". |
1800 | Hull | Quebec | Canada | Formerly known as Wrightville. |
1803 | Chicago | Illinois | United States | Grew from Fort Dearborn. |
1805 | Huntsville | Alabama | United States | |
1807 | Prince George | British Columbia | Canada | Grew from fur trading post of Fort George, estalished in 1807 by the North West Company. |
1810 | Manchester | New Hampshire | United States | |
1810 | San Bernardino | California | United States | |
1811 | Astoria | Oregon | United States | Grew from Fort Astoria, founded by the Pacific Fur Company in 1811. |
1812 | Columbus | Ohio | United States | |
1812 | Kamloops | British Columbia | Canada | Grew from fur trading posts of Fort Cumcloups (Fort Kamloops) and Fort She-whaps (Shuswap), founded by the Pacific Fur Company and North West Company, both in 1812. |
1815 | Hamilton | Ontario | Canada | |
1816 | Chattanooga | Tennessee | United States | Originally named Ross's Landing. |
1816 | Cambridge | Ontario | Canada | Original settlement in 1816 named Shades Mill, ON, renamed Galt, ON in 1827. City of Galt amalgamated with the towns of Preston and Hespeler, village of Blair and parts of Waterloo township to form City of Cambridge in 1973. Oldest settled area of Regional Municipality of Waterloo. |
1816 | Saginaw | Michigan | United States | |
1817 | Fort Smith | Arkansas | United States | |
1818 | Pontiac | Michigan | United States | The first settlers arrived in what is now the City of Pontiac in 1818. Two years later there were enough people there to form a village named after the famous Indian Chief Chief Pontiac Pontiac was Michigan's first inland settlement.The village was officially recognized by the state legislature in 1837 and it incorporated as a city in 1861. |
1818 | Columbia | Missouri | United States | |
1819 | Montgomery | Alabama | United States | State capital, grew from the 1540 French settlement Fort Toulouse. |
1819 | Springfield | Illinois | United States | |
1819 | Memphis | Tennessee | United States | Near the site of the earlier French Fort Prudhomme. |
1821 | Alexandria | British Columbia | Canada | Grew from fur trading posts of Fort Alexandria, founded by the North West Company in 1821. |
1821 | Little Rock | Arkansas | United States | |
1821 | Indianapolis | Indiana | United States | |
1822 | Jacksonville | Florida | United States | |
1822 | Jackson | Mississippi | United States | |
1823 | Tampa | Florida | United States | Grew from earlier military post Fort Brooke. |
1824 | Tallahassee | Florida | United States | |
1825 | Vancouver | Washington | United States | Grew from Fort Vancouver. |
1825 | Vicksburg | Mississippi | United States | |
1825 | Grand Rapids | Michigan | United States | |
1825 | Irapuato | Guanajuato | Mexico | Becomes villa in 1825 and ciudad in 1893. |
1826 | London | Ontario | Canada | |
1826 | Wabasha | Minnesota | United States | Oldest city in Minnesota |
1827 | Guelph | Ontario | Canada | |
1827 | St. Andrews | Florida | United States | Now part of Panama City |
1828 | Key West | Florida | United States | |
1833 | Milwaukee | Wisconsin | United States | |
1833 | Kitchener | Ontario | Canada | Formerly Berlin ON, renamed Kitchener ON in 1916. |
1836 | Shreveport | Louisiana | United States | |
1836 | Madison | Wisconsin | United States | |
1837 | Lansing | Michigan | United States | |
1837 | Houston | Texas | United States | |
1837 | Toledo | Ohio | United States | |
1839 | Sacramento | California | United States | |
1841 | Dallas | Texas | United States | |
1843 | Atlanta | Georgia | United States | Originally known as Marthasville, Georgia. |
1843 | Victoria | British Columbia | Canada | |
1847 | Brantford | Ontario | Canada | Originally known as Brant's ford. |
1847 | Salt Lake City | Utah | United States | Originally known as Great Salt Lake City. |
1847 | Harrisburg | Illinois | United States | |
1850 | Bytown | Ontario | Canada | Now Ottawa, Ontario. |
1851 | La Crosse | Wisconsin | United States | |
1851 | Seattle | Washington | United States | |
1854 | Omaha | Nebraska | United States | |
1856 | O'Fallon | Missouri | United States | |
1857 | Waterloo | Ontario | Canada | |
1858 | Denver | Colorado | United States | |
1862 | Victoria | British Columbia | Canada | Provincial Capital of British Columbia |
1864 | Salinas | California | United States | |
1867 | Minneapolis | Minnesota | United States | |
1868 | Phoenix | Arizona | United States | |
1870 | Wichita | Kansas | United States | |
1871 | Birmingham | Alabama | United States | |
1872 | Anniston | Alabama | United States | |
1874 | Pasadena | California | United States | |
1875 | Orlando | Florida | United States | |
1875 | Calgary | Alberta | Canada | Grew from Fort Calgary |
1882 | Regina | Saskatchewan | Canada | |
1883 | Saskatoon | Saskatchewan | Canada | |
1886 | Vancouver | British Columbia | Canada | Named after English explorer George Vancouver |
1886 | Nelson | British Columbia | Canada | |
1887 | Gulfport | Mississippi | United States | |
1889 | Oklahoma City | Oklahoma | United States | |
1889 | Tijuana | Baja California | Mexico | Tijuana derives from the Kumeyaay word Tiwan, meaning by-the-sea. |
1893 | Kamloops | British Columbia | Canada | From the Shuswap language "Tk'emlups" meaning meeting of the waters. |
1896 | Miami | Florida | United States | |
1905 | Cranbrook | British Columbia | Canada | |
1905 | Las Vegas | Nevada | United States | |
1911 | The Pas | Manitoba | Canada | Grew from Fort Paskoyac |
1915 | Prince George | British Columbia | Canada | Grew from Fort George |
Famous quotes containing the words list of, list, north, american, cities, year and/or foundation:
“Do your children view themselves as successes or failures? Are they being encouraged to be inquisitive or passive? Are they afraid to challenge authority and to question assumptions? Do they feel comfortable adapting to change? Are they easily discouraged if they cannot arrive at a solution to a problem? The answers to those questions will give you a better appraisal of their education than any list of courses, grades, or test scores.”
—Lawrence Kutner (20th century)
“Lastly, his tomb
Shall list and founder in the troughs of grass
And none shall speak his name.”
—Karl Shapiro (b. 1913)
“The recent attempt to secure a charter from the State of North Dakota for a lottery company, the pending effort to obtain from the State of Louisiana a renewal of the charter of the Louisiana State Lottery, and the establishment of one or more lottery companies at Mexican towns near our border, have served the good purpose of calling public attention to an evil of vast proportions.”
—Benjamin Harrison (18331901)
“The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air.”
—Mary McCarthy (19121989)
“London, thou art of townes A per se.
Soveraign of cities, semeliest in sight,
Of high renoun, riches, and royaltie;
Of lordis, barons, and many goodly knyght;
Of most delectable lusty ladies bright;
Of famous prelatis in habitis clericall;
Of merchauntis full of substaunce and myght:
London, thou art the flour of Cities all”
—William Dunbar (c. 1465c. 1530)
“That corpse you planted last year in your garden,
Has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year?
Or has the sudden frost disturbed its bed?
O keep the Dog far hence, thats friend to men,
Or with his nails hell dig it up again!”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“But I hate things all fiction ... there should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabricand pure invention is but the talent of a liar.”
—GGeorge Gordon Noel Byron (17881824)