Map: The British Colonies By the early 1600s, England was eager to gain a colonial foothold on the North American continent. The first enduring settlement was founded at Jamestown in Virginia in 1607.

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City museum is opening an exhibit of rarely displayed maps that provide a blueprint of the transformation of the original 13 colonies into the United States of America.

European Printmakers Had No Idea What Colonial American Cities Looked Like, So They Just Made Stuff Up To satisfy customers hungry for visions of the British colonies, these artists created wildly ...