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archives. The maps, along with a scanned images (upon request), are returned to the donor. The repository does not retain hard copies of maps. As maps are obtained

battles with the Spanish Armada. The fate of the "Lost Colony" of Roanoke Island remains one of the most widely debated mysteries of American history. Two

weeks) after the signing of the United States Declaration of Independence. Denver is the capital, the most populous city, and the center of the Front Range

third of Virginia's population of 8.7 million live. Eastern Virginia is part of the Atlantic Plain, and the Middle Peninsula forms the mouth of the Chesapeake

result of the Treaty of Paris, the French ceded control of Ohio and the remainder of the Old Northwest to Great Britain in 1763. Before the American Revolution

buried in silt at the bottom of Wassaw Sound. By the 1960s, the proportion of African Americans in Georgia had declined to 28% of the state's population, after

developed on a large scale on the back of slave labor. By the second half of the 1700s, South Carolina was one of the richest of the Thirteen Colonies. File:Recto

JPG The history of Puerto Rico began with the settlement of the Ortoiroid people before 430 BC. At the time of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New

Osborne County was the geodetic center of North America: the central reference point for all maps of North America. The geographic center of Kansas is in Barton

After the Louisiana Purchase, pioneers laid the foundation for an agriculture-based economy in the heart of the Corn Belt. In the latter half of the 20th

and the Canadian province of Quebec to the north. As of the 2020 U.S. census, the state had a population of 643,503, ranking it the second least populated

by reprisals by the British government, were a primary reason for the unity of the Thirteen Colonies and the outbreak of the American Revolution in 1775

state in the Southeastern region of the United States. It borders the Gulf of Mexico to the west, Alabama to the northwest, Georgia to the north, the Atlantic

thousands of years, and it is widely believed that the region served as the entry point for the initial settlement of North America by way of the Bering land

Arkansas to the east, New Mexico to the west, and Colorado to the northwest. Partially in the western extreme of the Upland South, it is the 20th-most extensive

became part of the United States at the end of the American Revolutionary War, when the Second Treaty of Paris was signed. Land west of the Mississippi

February 9, 1933. The number of thunderstorm days varies across the state with the southeastern plains of the state having the most days of thunderstorm activity

north shore, of which Lewiston is the county seat. The Port of Lewiston, at the confluence of the Clearwater and the Snake Rivers is the farthest inland

2014.jpg The area of Louisiana is the place of origin of the Mound Builders culture during the Middle Archaic period, in the 4th millennium BC. The sites

which roughly bisects the state and drains into the Long Island Sound between the towns of Old Saybrook and Old Lyme. The name of the river is in turn derived