Pehr Kalm
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Pehr Kalm, also known as Peter Kalm, was a Swedish-Finnish explorer, botanist, naturalist, and agricultural economist. He was one of the most important apostles of Carl Linnaeus.
A picture commonly believed to portray Kalm, although some modern-day historians have suggested it may be of Kalm's colleague Pehr Gadd. Painted by Johan Georg Geitel, 1764.
Illustration of Cohoes Falls, from the book En Resa til Norra America by Pehr Kalm
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New Sweden
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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
Pehr Kalm
…Swedish-Finnish community of Raccoon, which is now Swedesboro, New Jersey in South Jersey. This town had been founded as part of the former Swedish colony of New Sweden. There, he also served as the substitute pastor of Trinity Church, the local Swedish Lutheran church. Kalm subsequently married Anna Margaretha Sjöman…
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).