Where in the americas did christopher columbus land first?

Columbus Day, which commemorates Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World on October 12, 1492, and is observed on the second Monday of October, is one of 10 federal holidays. The first Columbus Day is said to have occurred in 1792 and it became a statutory holiday 100 years later, in 1892. read more

6. The colony of Plymouth was the first English settlement established in the Americas. read more

Columbus Day, which commemorates Christopher Columbus’s arrival in the New World on October 12, 1492, and is observed on the second Monday of October, is one of 10 federal holidays. The first Columbus Day is said to have occurred in 1792 and it became a statutory holiday 100 years later, in 1892. read more

Scholars believe that the island Columbus first landed on, which he dubbed "San Salvador," is one of the islands in the Bahamas: either Plana Cays, Samana Cays, or San Salvador Island (which was named that in 1925 because of the theory that that's where Columbus landed). read more