FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
NATIVE AMERICANS
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While there were several million people in America, the population in all of South Carolina was just over 100, 000.
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There were a few English settlements on the West coast (in present-day California) but the middle portion of the country was largely unoccupied.
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The largest English settlements at the time were in Florida.
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Many settlements further north, such as Jamestown and Boston, had already been established for several decades.
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Detailed explanation-1: -First permanent English settlement in South Carolina established at Albemarle Point in Charleston in 1670.
Detailed explanation-2: -In 1670, the first permanent English settlement in South Carolina was established at Albemarle Point. Many of the original settlers came from Barbados, including the new governor, William Sayle.
Detailed explanation-3: -Roanoke. The first European settlement in what is today North Carolina-indeed, the first English settlement in the New World-was the “lost colony of Roanoke, ” founded by the English explorer and poet Walter Raleigh in 1587.
Detailed explanation-4: -Following the initiative of the lords proprietor (or their deputies), the English made the first permanent settlement in the region, on the west bank of the Ashley River at Albemarle Point, in 1670.