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== History | == History {{Adoption PARoots}} <br> == | ||
[[Image:New Sweden map.png|thumb|right|500px | [[Image:New Sweden map.png|thumb|right|500px]]'''New Sweden''' (Swedish: Nya Sverige) was a Swedish colony on the Delaware River on the Atlantic coast of North America from 1638 to 1655. It was centered at Fort Christina, now in Wilmington, Delaware, and included parts of the present-day states of [[Delaware]], [[New Jersey|New Jersey]], and [[Pennsylvania]]. About 600 Swedes and 300 Finns, Dutch, and Germans built the colony for the purpose of producing tobacco and furs.<ref name="WNN">"New Sweden" in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Sweden (accessed 7 November 2008).</ref> | ||
A lasting legacy of New Sweden was an interest among Swedish people in migrating to America. Another legacy was the log cabin, an idea from Sweden which became the most popular style of first-home on the American frontier.<ref name="WNN" /> New Sweden also brought some of the earliest Lutheran believers and their ministers to America. | A lasting legacy of New Sweden was an interest among Swedish people in migrating to America. Another legacy was the log cabin, an idea from Sweden which became the most popular style of first-home on the American frontier.<ref name="WNN" /> New Sweden also brought some of the earliest Lutheran believers and their ministers to America. | ||
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*(New Netherland: Fort Casimir) (New Sweden: Fort Trefaldighets), now New Castle, Delaware 1651-1655<ref>Johnson, Detailed Map.</ref><ref>"Fort Casimir" in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Casimir (accessed 7 November 2008).</ref><ref>Klein and Hoogenboom.</ref> | *(New Netherland: Fort Casimir) (New Sweden: Fort Trefaldighets), now New Castle, Delaware 1651-1655<ref>Johnson, Detailed Map.</ref><ref>"Fort Casimir" in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Casimir (accessed 7 November 2008).</ref><ref>Klein and Hoogenboom.</ref> | ||
[[Image:MuskegonStateParkBlockhouse.JPG|thumb|300px | [[Image:MuskegonStateParkBlockhouse.JPG|thumb|300px]] | ||
=== '''Blockhouses''' (single log cabin forts) === | === '''Blockhouses''' (single log cabin forts) === | ||