What was the first permanent settlement in the United States?

Baloo55th

Probably one of the Pueblo towns. They were there well before Europeans arrived. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pueblo According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Pueblo_Peoples there were settlements around 1200 BCE - impossible to tell which was the first by now. Aug 24 08, 2:15 PM

author

The first permanent settlement in the US by European settlers which still exists, is St.Augustine. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Augustine,_Florida Of course the native Americans were there before the Europeans. Still, if you are asking for the first European settlement, I think it was Pensacola, although it was soon to be abandoned by the Spanish. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pensacola,_Florida Aug 24 08, 2:16 PM

McGruff

Excluding Native settlements, I would go with St. Augustine. St. Augustine is the oldest continuously settled city established by Europeans in the continental United States. It was founded by the Spanish under Admiral Pedro Menéndez de Avilés in 1565. A few settlements were founded prior to St. Augustine but all failed, including the original Pensacola colony in West Florida, founded by Tristán de Luna y Arellano in 1559, with the area abandoned in 1561 due to hurricanes, famine and warring tribes. Fort Caroline, founded by the French in 1564 in what is today Jacksonville, Florida only lasted a year before being obliterated by the Spanish in 1565. The city of St. Augustine was founded by Pedro Menéndez on September 8, 1565. Menéndez first sighted land on August 28, the feast day of Augustine of Hippo, and consequently named the settlement San Agustín. Martín de Argüelles was born there one year later in 1566, the first child of European ancestry to be born in what is now the continental United States. This came 21 years before the English settlement at Roanoke Island in Virginia Colony, and 42 years before the successful settlements of Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Jamestown, Virginia. In all the territory under the jurisdiction of the United States, only European-established settlements in Puerto Rico are older than St. Augustine, with the oldest being Caparra, founded in 1508, whose inhabitants relocated and founded San Juan, in 1521. (From the Wiki site in author's answer.) The first permanent English settlement was Jamestown, Virgina, 1607. http://www.traveljournals.net/stories/26343.html Aug 25 08, 9:55 PM