I love how everyone is trying to point out other colonies that were created. The ones used in the article are PERMANENT colonies. Roanoke and Pensacola are both non-permanent. For whatever reason, people settled and left, they may have come back but they left. St. Augustine and Jamestown have been populated the entirety of their existence.

I'll quote from the article just so you'll understand, since you didn't get it the first time "The first permanent colony in modern day America was actually located in St. Augustine, Florida and was set up by the Spanish in 1565."