Qualla: Vandalia https://qualla.com/vandalia-colony en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:06 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Vandalia https://qualla.com/vandalia-colony Vandalia: Introduction https://qualla.com/vandalia-colony/ It would have been the fourteenth original American colony, except it was never born. Vandalia existed only on maps drawn by London speculators and in petitions that reached the king but not his signature. Stretched across what is now West Virginia and northeastern Kentucky, the proposed colony took its name from Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, whose ancestors were thought to descend from the Vandals - the Germanic tribe that sacked Rome in 455. A colony named for barbarian invaders, planned by men in powdered wigs, ultimately erased by a revolution they helped trigger.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/f/vandalia-colony-wp/dnvf-vandalia-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Vandalia: The Suffering Traders https://qualla.com/vandalia-colony/ It started with merchants who had lost everything. During Pontiac's Rebellion of 1763-1766, native warriors had seized trade goods from British traders across the Ohio Valley. The traders, calling themselves the suffering traders, organized to recover their losses through land gr...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/f/vandalia-colony-wp/dnvf-vandalia-the-suffering-traders.mp3 0:06 2 full Vandalia: Naming a Colony After Vandals https://qualla.com/vandalia-colony/ The speculators first wanted to call their colony Pittsylvania, but they thought better of it and chose Vandalia, an act of pure royal flattery. Queen Charlotte was rumored to have Vandalic ancestry - the Vandals being the Germanic people who had once ruled North Africa and Spain...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/f/vandalia-colony-wp/dnvf-vandalia-naming-a-colony-after-vandals.mp3 0:06 3 full Vandalia: The Westsylvania Petition https://qualla.com/vandalia-colony/ The American Revolutionary War killed Vandalia. With London's authority broken, the settlers reorganized and tried again. During the war, they petitioned the Continental Congress to admit them as a new province called Westsylvania, covering nearly the same ground as Vandalia. Bot...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/f/vandalia-colony-wp/dnvf-vandalia-the-westsylvania-petition.mp3 0:06 4 full Vandalia: What the Borders Drew Instead https://qualla.com/vandalia-colony/ The federal government ultimately split the Vandalia land between Pennsylvania and Virginia along the Mason-Dixon line. Kentucky, settled mostly by Virginians, became a state in 1792. West Virginia broke from Virginia during the Civil War and was admitted as a state in 1863, fina...

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