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" . . . America's oldest city . . ." Santa Fe, Newport News, Hampton, Albany, and Jersey City would disagree.

• AnimalMuppet 7y ago
  And Saint Augustine.
• ska 7y ago
  San Juan has these beat by a hundred years or so. Saint Augustine is about 50 years younger (so also has these beat) and I think the oldest on continental soil.
• nostrademons 7y ago
  He could mean that in the sense of "first to declare independence from European colonists and fall under control of the political body that would become the United States."
  • ska 7y ago
    That would be a pretty idiosyncratic use.