Why don't they go ahead and change the name of the White House to the West House. They want to do away with the heritage of White Settlement and destroy the history of White Settlement.
Here, we tell the story: why the people came here, what they did when they got here, going back to the Native Americans and coming all the way forward.
Jamestown was the first permanent English settlement, established in 1607. The first permanent settlement was St. Augustine, established in 1565, by -- you know it – Spain.
The original settlers of Alaska apparently were Russian.
Cincinnati attracted its first permanent white settlers by flatboat in 1788. It took its name from the Society of Cincinnati, an organization of Revolutionary officers. That name came from Cincinnatus, the Roman farmer and general.
The core character of Victorians is one of aspiration and ambition, and Victorians have, since first settlement days... demonstrated that core character over and over again.
Nobody realizes that Mormons were the first Americans to settle Las Vegas.
There is nothing wrong with the name White Settlement, and the majority here is proud of the name.
It is worth remembering that our cities occupy important sites, and therefore some kind of settlement is liable to be there.