USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Spanish colonists founded Santa Elena in 1566 on an island in the Port Royal Sound of present-day South Carolina.

Detailed explanation-2: -Fort San Juan Fort built in western North Carolina by Spanish explorers in 1567 during their search for a route to Mexico; the first European settlement built in North Carolina.

Detailed explanation-3: -Founded in 1566 on the site of Charlesfort, Santa Elena was the first capital of Spanish Florida. Fort San Salvador, a simple blockhouse, was built first, and then Fort San Felipe was built directly on top of the old French fort in that year, with a new moat (the French one having been filled in).

Detailed explanation-4: -San Miguel de Gualdape (sometimes San Miguel de Guadalupe) is a former Spanish colony in present-day Georgetown County, South Carolina, founded in 1526 by Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón. It was the first European settlement in what became the continental United States, and the third in North America north of Mexico.

Detailed explanation-5: -The town of Santa Elena on what is now Parris Island, South Carolina was the sixteenth-century capital of Spanish Florida.