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<p>[QUOTE="scottishmoney, post: 7684128, member: 12789"]One "lost" and little known early settlement in Maine is the Popham Colony which was founded in 1607, the same year as the Jamestown colony in Virginia and 13 years before the Plymouth colony in Massachusetts-Bay. The colony failed and everybody lived, but didn't really tell the tale because it failed, and boarded the ship back to merry old England.</p><p><br /></p><p>One has to wonder though... there are vague accounts of a St. Brendan from Ireland visiting the America's in the first millennium AD, also accounts of a Chinese explorer that allegedly crossed the Pacific and visited Central America. It is not outside the realm of possibility that there were early visitors to the America's that didn't record their travels - or they never made it back because of a shipwreck etc.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="scottishmoney, post: 7684128, member: 12789"]One "lost" and little known early settlement in Maine is the Popham Colony which was founded in 1607, the same year as the Jamestown colony in Virginia and 13 years before the Plymouth colony in Massachusetts-Bay. The colony failed and everybody lived, but didn't really tell the tale because it failed, and boarded the ship back to merry old England. One has to wonder though... there are vague accounts of a St. Brendan from Ireland visiting the America's in the first millennium AD, also accounts of a Chinese explorer that allegedly crossed the Pacific and visited Central America. It is not outside the realm of possibility that there were early visitors to the America's that didn't record their travels - or they never made it back because of a shipwreck etc.[/QUOTE]
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