New Sweden 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 Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Established during th
The C. A. Nothnagle Log House in Gibbstown, New Jersey, built in 1638 in New Sweden, is the oldest house in New Jersey.
A U.S. Postal stamp commemorating the founding of Wilmington, Delaware, once part of New Sweden (1938)
Old Swedes Church, built in the era of New Sweden, in Swedesburg, Pennsylvania
Little Catechism of Martin Luther translated into local Native American languages by Swede Johannes Campanius (from 1696).
New Netherland was a colony of the Dutch Republic located on the East Coast of what is now the United States. The claimed territories extended from the Delmarva Peninsula to Cape Cod. Settlements were
New Sweden
…Swedes, Finns, a number of Dutch, and some Germans. New Sweden was conquered by the Dutch Republic in 1655 and incorporated into the Dutch colony of New Netherland. By the middle of the 17th century, Sweden had reached its greatest territorial extent, encompassing Finland and Estonia, as well as parts of present-day…
The West India House in Amsterdam, headquarters of the Dutch West India Company from 1623 to 1647
St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery, site of Peter Stuyvesant's grave
Image of Nieuw Amsterdam made in 1664, the year that it was surrendered to English forces under Richard Nicolls
The original New Netherland settlements at Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Jersey City have grown into the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the United States