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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2D7R_new-amsterdam-plein-six_New-York-NY.html
New Amsterdam Plein : Six . New Amsterdam . . Under Peter Minuit, the settlers of the little city of New Amsterdam worked quickly. By about 1627 they had 30 wooden houses constructed along "The Strand", facing the bluffed shore 500 ya…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2D6K_new-amsterdam-plein-three_New-York-NY.html
New Amsterdam Plein: Three. The Island. New Amsterdam Plein : Three . The Island . . Peter Minuit arrived at a colony in turmoil. Some 150 miles upriver from the harbor, several Dutch soldiers were killed by Mohawk Indians. The settlers panicke…
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New Amsterdam Plein: Four. . . Every reader of history knows the story: Peter Minuit bought Manhattan Island in 1626 from a group of Indians for 60 guilders worth of goods, or as a 19th century historian calculated it, 24 dollars. Of the thousan…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2D5N_new-amsterdam-plein-five_New-York-NY.html
New Amsterdam Plein: Five. . . There was an actual deed for the sale of Manhattan but it vanished long ago. Fortunately, a Dutch official was on the dock in Amsterdam in 1626 when a ship from Manhattan arrived. The letter he wrote to his superio…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2D4U_new-amsterdam-plein-two_New-York-NY.html
New Amsterdam Plein: Two. Peter Minuit. . He had grown up speaking German, but his ancestry was French, so his name was pronounced in the French wat - Min-wee. He had no military training, but he was an individualistic, take-charge sort who woul…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2D3T_new-amsterdam-plein-one_New-York-NY.html
New Amsterdam Plein: One. A New Land. One A New Land . By tens and twenties the settlers came in 1624 and 1625, pitching on the inhuman waves in frightfully vulnerable wooden ships. Two months it took to follow in the wake of the English explor…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2D35_american-jewish-tercentenary_New-York-NY.html
American Jewish Tercentenary. Erected by the State of New York to honor the memory of the twenty three men women & children who landed in September 1654 and founded the first Jewish community in North America . American Jewish Tercentenary 1654-1…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2D1N_james-joyce-pub-award_New-York-NY.html
James Joyce Pub Award. Moran's Restaurant & Bar. This pub has been granted the James Joyce Pub Award for being an authentic Irish pub. . 'A good puzzle would be to cross Ireland without passing a pub.' Ulysses . James Joyce identified and descri…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2D19_the-cherub-gate-a-war-memorial_New-York-NY.html
The Cherub Gate . . The cherub above is a gift to Trinity Church from the Church of St. Mary le Bow in London which was designed by Sir Christopher Wren in 1680 and was destroyed in an air raid on May 10, 1941. The cherub survived the bombing an…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2D17_curbstone-brokers_New-York-NY.html
"Curbstone Brokers". . For more than a century, the outdoor brokers, predecessors of the American Stock Exchange, conducted a marketplace on the curbstones of the Financial District, serving investors and aiding the nation's industrial growth. The…