Statehouse Thoughts & Headcannons

State Ages

UPDATED TO INCLUDE DC (The government) AND DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA (they're separate people, they have a conversation in the 2nd statehouse episode)

First off, sorry for not posting in forever, I have to edit and my schedule has made that much harder than it needs to be so updates might be slow for the next week. I'll be making chapters in advance so I'll have something to post everyday but I need to build up that number first. Thank yall for all your patience <3

This'll be a list of all the states from oldest to youngest, by the year they were founded
(this is only going from date of first European settlement, most native tribes and groups moved around a lot and didn't have set territory so I don't think the states would exist before the Europeans got there.)

Anyways, I hope this helps y'all if you need to know the age dynamics, though time of admission into the union probably also has an influence there, you can find a list for that with a quick google search.

The Carolinas started out as one colony that was honestly split from the get-go, founded in 1663, but split later on. Assuming Carolina had it's own personification that split into two when they did I'm going to list them as the year they became individual. The same thing applies to the Dakotas but they weren't split as significantly and did it at the same time, so they're more of a twin situation.

1. Florida - He's the oldest state, San Augustín in 1565

2. New Mexico - San Juan de los Caballeros in 1598

3. Maine - Saint Croix Island in 1604

4. Virginia - Jamestown in 1607

5. Massachusetts - Plymouth Colony in 1620

6. New Hampshire - Odiorne's Point in 1623

7. Connecticut - a fortified trading post colony settlement thing called Fort Hoop in 1623

8. New York - New Amsterdam in 1624

9. Delaware - Lewes in 1631

10. Maryland - Maryland territory in 1632

11. Rhode Island - Providence in 1636

12. New Jersey - Bergen in 1660

13. Wisconsin - St. Francis Xavier Mission in 1665

14. Michigan - Sault Ste. Mary in 1668

15. Indiana - Tassinong in 1673

16. Illinois - mission established near Utica in 1675

17. Pennsylvania - Chester in 1681

18. Arkansas - the Arkansas Post in 1686

19. Arizona - first settlement was missions along the Santa Cruz River in 1687

20. Louisiana - Fort Maurepas in 1699

21. Mississippi - Fort Maurepas 1699

22. Alabama - Fort Louis in 1702

23. Texas - San Antonio in 1718

24. Vermont - Fort Dummer in 1724

25. Georgia - Savannah in 1733 (countries were fighting over the land since 1670 but there wasn't anything there yet so,,, I say it doesn't count)

26. Missouri - St. Genevieve in 1735

27. Tennessee - North Holston in 1768

28. California - Presidio at San Diego in 1769

29. Kentucky - Harrod's Town in 1774

30. Washington - Point Grenville in 1775

31. Alaska - Three Saints Bay in 1784

32. Iowa - Dubuque in 1787

33. Ohio - Marietta in 1788

34. South Carolina - officiated split in 1788

35. D.C. - United States officially establishes itself after the war for independence in 1789 (no I don't count the Declaration of Independence in 1776 because at that time we didn't have a government set up)

36. North Carolina - officiated state (late because of delays) in 1789

37. District of Columbia - not a state but created by the constitution in 1790

38. Nebraska - Fort Charles in 1795

39. Oregon - Astoria in 1811

40. Minnesota - Fort Snelling in 1819

41. Kansas - Fort Leavenworth in 1827

42. Wyoming - Fort Laramie in 1834

43. Montana - St. Mary's Mission in 1841

44. Utah - Salt Lake City in 1847

45. Hawaii - she's a special case because she was vibing as an island kingdom before we annexed her so I'm just gonna go with having 'Ancient Hawaii' as a separate personification and set her at 1848, when Americans started buying out land

46. Nevada - Genoa in 1851

47. Colorado - San Luis in 1851

48. Idaho - Franklin in 1860

49. West Virginia - left Virginia in 1863

50. North & South Dakota - split 1889

51. Oklahoma - Oklahoma territory in 1890 (I Tried with this one but the dude needs to get his history organized, I kinda gave up halfway through researching but from what I can gather most of Oklahoma was "No Man's Land" on the left half and on the right it was Native American land so he kind just chilled as something that took up space without actually existing)