Year(s)
|
State
|
2010 Population
|
FORMER CAPITAL
|
1776-1777
|
Delaware
|
5,000
|
New Castle
|
1776-1778, 1782, 1784-1786
|
Georgia
|
136,000
|
Savannah
|
1776-1875 (joint)
|
Connecticut
|
862,000
|
New Haven
|
1778-1780, 1781-1782, 1786-1796
|
Georgia
|
196,000
|
August
|
1780-1781
|
Georgia
|
4,000
|
Heard's Fort
|
1782-1784
|
Georgia
|
0
|
Ebenezer
|
1796-1807
|
Georgia
|
2,000
|
Louisville
|
1807-1864, 1865-1868
|
Georgia
|
18,000
|
Milledgeville
|
1812-1830, 1831-1849, 1865-1882
|
Louisiana
|
344,000
|
New Orleans
|
1816-1825
|
Indiana
|
3,000
|
Corydon
|
1817-1821
|
Mississippi
|
16,000
|
Natchez
|
1818-1820
|
Illinois
|
14
|
Kaskaskia
|
1819-1820
|
Alabama
|
180,000
|
Huntsville
|
1820-1826
|
Alabama
|
0
|
Cahaba
|
1820-1827, 1827-1832 (de facto)
|
Maine
|
66,000
|
Portland
|
1820-1839
|
Illinois
|
7,000
|
Vandalia
|
1821-1826
|
Missouri
|
66,000
|
Saint Charles
|
1826-1846
|
Alabama
|
90,000
|
Tuscaloosa
|
1830-1831
|
Louisiana
|
7,000
|
Donaldsonville
|
1837-1847
|
Michigan
|
714,000
|
Detroit
|
1846-1857
|
Iowa
|
68,000
|
Iowa City
|
1850-1851
|
California
|
946,000
|
San Jose
|
1851-1852
|
California
|
116,000
|
Vallejo
|
1853-1854
|
California
|
27,000
|
Benicia
|
1862-1863
|
Louisiana
|
17,000
|
Opelousas
|
1863-1865
|
Louisiana
|
199,000
|
Shreveport
|
1864-1865
|
Georgia
|
91,000
|
Macon
|
|