This period continues the Age of Discovery with merchants and explorers setting sail from Europe to new lands. It is during this period that marks Little Falls earliest recorded history. For more information on the Little Falls Historical Society Museum collection, please contact us at the museum.
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The Mohawk Indians was one of the five original tribes of the Iroquois Confederacy, they were the “keepers of the eastern door” to Confederacy lands. The Mohawk’s ancestral tribal lands included what is now Little Falls and extended north and south of the Mohawk Valley.
Native American Exhibit
Sir Walter Raleigh founds Roanoke Colony, the first English settlement in the New World.
Establishment of Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in the Americas.
Henry Hudson explores the Hudson River and sails as far north as Albany.
The Dutch establish a fur trading center with the Native Americans on Manhattan Island.
First African slaves in English North America arrive at Jamestown. House of Burgesses was formed in Jamestown, the first democratically elected legislative in English North America.
The Plymouth Colony is founded and the Mayflower Compact signed.
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