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Article: SUGAR CANE CAME TO NEW WORLD WITH COLUMBUS IN 1494.(Local)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- September 29, 1998
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Byline: The Hispanic-American Almanac, Hispanic American Chronology and Chronology of Hispanic American History.
On Jan. 1, 1494, Columbus and his fleet left La Navidad and arrived at a promising site on the northern coast of Hispaniola. There, he decided to build La Isabela, the first permanent Spanish settlement in the New World.
The colonists built a town overlooking the ocean that included a house for Columbus, a church, a hospital, ...