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By Kari Lydersen / The Bulletin
May 19, 2009
The first planned colonial town in the New World was founded in 1494, when about 1,200 of Christopher Columbus’ crew members from the 17 ships that made up his second journey to the Americas settled on the north coast of what is now the Dominican Republic.
In the past few years,....