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    St. Augustine, Florida is the oldest city in the US. What city is the second oldest?

    Question #107167. Asked by sirfrank. (Jul 17 09 9:27 PM)


    nyamo

    		Santa Fe, New Mexico - 1609

    http://www.historiography101.blogspot.com/2003_08_31_archive.html

    Jul 17 09, 9:34 PM
    star_gazer

    		St. Augustine, Florida is not the oldest US city but the answer to your question because:

    Acoma, New Mexico: Forty minutes drive east of Grants, New Mexico, lies the Pueblo (village) of Acoma, built on a sandstone mesa 367-feet above a valley and approximately 7,000 feet above sea level. The pueblo was built on a mesa for defensive purposes, keeping rival raiding tribes at bay. Native verbal history says Acoma was first inhabited about 700 AD although modern archeological evidence suggests it has been continuously occupied from 1150, making it America's oldest continually inhabited city. It is presently inhabited by a small population of Keresan-speaking Native Americans.

    http://citybloc.com/featured/oldest_cities


    Jul 17 09, 10:53 PM
    author

    		This Wiki list says that Cahokia, Illinois is the oldest.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_North_American_cities_by_year_of_foundation

    Jul 18 09, 3:44 AM

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