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stonecutter357

(13,001 posts) Sat Jan 31, 2026, 07:42 PM Yesterday

Exploring "The OLDEST Continually Occupied City in America" My Hometown !

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Exploring "The OLDEST Continually Occupied City in America" My Hometown ! (Original Post) stonecutter357 Yesterday OP

hmmm Tucson, AZ... Kali Yesterday #1

New Orleans would seem to be a qualifier. PikaBlue Yesterday #2

Wiki sez history dates back to before 1540. dixiegrrrrl 10 hrs ago #3

Kali

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1. hmmm Tucson, AZ...

Reply to stonecutter357 (Original post)

Sat Jan 31, 2026, 08:17 PM

Yesterday

Oriabi, also in AZ...Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico, for Euro only St Augustine, Florida are some of the ones I have always heard

PikaBlue

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2. New Orleans would seem to be a qualifier.

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Sat Jan 31, 2026, 08:43 PM

Yesterday

I don't know that for a fact; however, with it's history of Spanish and French ownership, I would think it might have longstanding continuous occupation.

dixiegrrrrl

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3. Wiki sez history dates back to before 1540.

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Sun Feb 1, 2026, 01:38 PM

10 hrs ago

Meaning Indian population for thousands of years before DeSoto "discovered" it in 1540.
White settlement 1889.

Why it's said to be oldest occupied area childersburg.org

Population much larger during WWII when munitions was a source of income.
It's up near Birmingham.

One of the things I have discovered driving thru old towns here in Ala. Is many are well preserved because brick was a common building material.

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