The First "American Colony" Was Established in the Holy Land 150 Years Ago.

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The First "American Colony" Was Established in the Holy Land 150 Years Ago. Help Us Find It in Photographs Posted: 05 Jun 2014  The American "Colony" in the 1860s. Please help us obtain  such pictures in high-resolution digitized form We are proud that the photographs presented here are all "kosher."  They usually have lapsed copyright restrictions, but, in any case, we seek and obtain permission from the relevant collections, archives and libraries.  All pictures are presented with the links to the original source, and we find librarians and archivists thankful for our site driving readers to their material. On occasion, however, we have skipped certain collections because of requests for payment. Photograph of the colony founder, George Jones Adams, c. 1841 We believe that pictures of Americans attempting to establish a colony near Jaffa in the 1860s are worthy of an entry in these pages.   (Our research found that Mark Twain met some of the members of the failed colony and wrote about them.) Unfortunately, the photographs can only be obtained in digitized high-resolution with payment.  In one case, a small American museum contains documents and photographs, and images must be purchased.  In the case of the Library of Congress, which has been amazingly cooperative in releasing their photographs, the photograph described below has never been digitized. Title: The American Settlement, near Joppa, Palestine. Erected by the Adams Colony from Maine and New Hampshire, 1866-7  Date Created/Published: [1866 or 1867] Medium: 1 photographic print. Summary: Photograph shows buildings of the "American Colony" or "Adams City" near Jaffa, now Tel Aviv, Israel which was founded by George Jones Adams (ca. 1811-1880) in 1866. Please click on the Paypal "Donate" button on the top right of our website,www.israeldailypicture.com, to assist us in purchasing these historic, high-resolution digitized images. (We are not purchasing the originals, just digitized copies.)