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New Sweden: The US's long-lost 'secret' colony

By Eliot Stein · BBC · June 2026
New Sweden: The US's long-lost 'secret' colony
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"It was the smallest, least-populated and shortest-lived colony in the US. But despite being virtually unheard of today, it helped shape the nation's birth 250 years ago."

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