Today in Johnson City History, Friday, June 12, 2026
Continuing with June!
Saturday, June 12, 1655: Three hundred and seventy-one years ago today, “English colonists establish a municipal government in the old Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam, which they rename New York.”
(Source: The American Patriot’s Almanac by William J. Bennett and John T. E. Cribb.)
Wednesday, June 12, 1776: Two hundred and fifty years ago today, “The col…