The United States as we know it today is almost 250 years old. While Indigenous peoples have lived on the land much longer, Europeans first started landing in the late 1400s and started to build permanent settlements from the mid-1500s onwards. As such, America's oldest cities significantly predate the founding of the United States, which came into being with the Revolutionary War of 1775 to 1783. Since these cities also all predate photography, we've included a number of historic engravings, paintings and illustrations.

Click through this gallery to learn about 15 of America's oldest cities that you can still visit today...