New Sweden (Swedish: Nya Sverige) was a colony of the Swedish Empire between 1638 and 1655 along the lower reaches of the Delaware River in what is now Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.

Feb 18, 2011 · In the days before New Jersey, when the British were still busy colonizing New England and Virginia, and the Dutch controlled New Netherland, which stretched from Toms River to the Vermont-Canada border, another group of European settlers were staking a claim to a New World Colony – the Swedes.

The colony eventually consisted of farms and small settlements along both banks of the Delaware River into modern Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Maryland. New Sweden rose to its greatest heights during the governorship of Johan Printz (1643-1653).

The relative location of the New Netherland and New Sweden colonies in modern-day New Jersey. Dutch settlement in the seventeenth century concentrated along the banks of the North River and the Upper New York Bay, though they maintained factories along the Delaware River as …

Jul 25, 2017 · For nearly 20 years in the 17th century, Sweden had a little-known colony that spanned parts of Delaware, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

Aug 8, 2022 · The Swedish Farmstead was originally built in 1988 as a living history museum in Bridgeton, New Jersey, in order to commemorate the 350th anniversary of the founding of New Sweden and to show how a Swedish settler family lived.

After 1655 the Swedish flag no longer flew overheard, but the Swedish and Finnish colonists remained as the majority population in Delaware, Southeastern Pennsylvania and Southern New Jersey under successive Dutch and English rulers.

IN EARLY NEW JERSEY In 1988 the people of the United States, Sweden, and Finland celebrated the 350th anniversary of the founding of the New Sweden colony on the banks of the Delaware River. The Swedish colony included parts of the present states of Delaware, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. New Sweden did not last very long as an independent ...

Trenton: New Jersey Historical Commission, 1992. “The First Foundations” (Arrival of the Dutch, the Land and the Natives, the Dutch Settle in New Jersey, the Swedes on the Delaware)

Between 1638 and 1643 Swedish settlers, many of them Finns, established “new Sweden” in the Delaware River valley, building “Fort Elfsborg” at present-day Salem, New Jersey to protect the settlement, which covered areas in what are now the states of New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania.