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4 unusual facts about New Sweden


1938 Philadelphia Phillies season

The Phillies wore blue and yellow on their uniforms in honor of the Tercentenary of New Sweden.

Christine Young

Young's 2005 book, A Bitter Brew: Faith, Power and Poison in a Small New England Town, documented a 2003 arsenic poisoning that took place at a small Lutheran church in New Sweden, Maine, killing one church member and making 15 others critically ill.

New Sweden

Fort Nya Vasa (1646) – located at Kingsessing, on the eastern side of Cobbs Creek near Cobbs Creek Parkway and Greenway Avenue in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

New Sweden, Maine

The State of Maine had appointed William W. Thomas, Jr., who had served as American Consul in Sweden during the administration of President Abraham Lincoln, to be State Immigration Commissioner.


Dutch West India Company

Samuel Blommaert secretly tried to secure his interests with the founding of the colony of New Sweden on the Delaware in the south.

Jesper Swedberg

Some copies were however sent to Swedish colonies overseas, such as to New Sweden, Delaware.

Rambo apple

The origins of the Rambo may date back to the American colony of New Sweden, when in 1637 Peter Gunnarsson Rambo, a Swedish immigrant, arrived on the Kalmar Nyckel.

Sven Gunnarsson

Sven Gunnarsson was a founder of the New Sweden colony, owner of land which today is most of present-day Society Hill in Philadelphia, and a progenitor of the Du Pont family in modern-day Delaware.

Swedish diaspora

The New Sweden Company established a colony on the Delaware River in 1638, naming it New Sweden.


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