“Here Is the Beginning of Pennsylvania”: A Settler Commemoration and Entangled Histories of Foundational Sites

<p>In the winter of 1937, Pennsylvania governor George H. Earle traveled to Sweden together with a state delegation, and made a stop in the small town of Bottnaryd—the birthplace of Johan Printz, a governor of the seventeenth century New Sweden colony located on the Delaware River. Reportedly...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Adam Hjorthén
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eScholarship Publishing, University of California 2016-07-01
Series:Journal of Transnational American Studies
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Online Access:http://escholarship.org/uc/item/6zz68517