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ASSER LEVY'S HOMELocation: ? Stone Street at Mill LaneDutch Name: ? Hoogh Straet (High Street) In a house on this site lived the Jewish trader and butcher Asser Levy. Possibly born in Lithuania, Levy probably came here from Amsterdam in 1654, t…
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ADRIAEN VAN DER DONCK'S HOMELocation: ? Marketfield Street at Broad StreetDutch Name: ? Het Marckvelt Steegie In a house that stood a few feet from here lived lawyer Adriaen van der Donck (c. 1620 - c. 1655), author of the Remonstrance of New N…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFZ3_beavers-path_New-York-NY.html
BEAVER'S PATHLocation: ? Battery Place at Greenwich StreetDutch Name: ? Bever Straet Here, on a sandyshore, Lenape Indians beached their canoes to trade beaver and otter pelts for Dutch cloth, kettles, and metal tools. To the Lenape, this was M…
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INTRODUCTIONIn September 1609, Henry Hudson and some 20 seamen sailed their ship, the Halve Maen (Half Moon), into what is today New York harbor. The Dutch East India Company expected Hudson to find a passage to Asia. Instead, his voyage allowed t…
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PETRUS STUYVESANT'S GREAT HOUSELocation: Whitehall Street between Pearl & State StreetsDutch Name: Opt Waeter Near this site stood the "Great House" of Petrus Stuyvesant (c. 1612-1672), Nieuw Nederland's last director. A colonial administrator …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HME70_delmonicos-building_New-York-NY.html
This Renaissance Revival style building, designed by the architect James Brown Lord in 1891, is the only surviving structure associated with Delmonico's, the legendary dining establishment. Founded in 1827, it was one of the first restaurants in t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HME6Z_13-south-william-street_New-York-NY.html
Listed on theNational Historic Register,this building was built in 1837-1839. In 1903 architect C.P.H. Gilbertconverted it into its currentNeo-Dutch Renaissance style. Today the building is home toAmerica's oldest security agency,McRoberts P…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDDK_manning-castle-clintons-28-guns_New-York-NY.html
Order of September 18, 1814 - "The force employed will be 2 gunners and 8 matrosses (artillerists) to each gun. To every section or chamber of 2 guns a non-commissioned officer" . . .
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In 1790 the Common Council of the City of New York authorized the removal of stone and soil from Fort George and the Grand Battery to fill in the pier line along the Battery. Beginning in 1808, the defenses of the city were extended out into the h…
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In spring 2006, during the South Ferry excavation in the Battery, four sections of a colonial era wall were identified by archeologists. Although each of the four sections exhibited unique features, they are all likely part of the same wall, const…
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