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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 31 December 2024. Florentine explorer of North America for France "Verrazzano" redirects here. For other uses, see Verrazano (disambiguation). Giovanni da Verrazzano Born 1485 Val di Greve, Republic of Florence (present-day Italy) Died 1528 (aged 42–43) Unclear; possibly Guadeloupe (uncolonized ...
The suffix "-ville," from the French word for "city" is common for town and city names throughout the United States. Many originally French place names, possibly hundreds, in the Midwest and Upper West were replaced with directly translated English names once American settlers became locally dominant (e.g. "La Petite Roche" became Little Rock ...
New York: United States: Dutch factorij which grew to become the Capital District around Albany: 1624: New Amsterdam: New York: United States: Present-day New York City. First settled 1624 on Governors Island, followed by Manhattan the following year. 1625: Merrymount: Massachusetts: United States: Now Quincy, Massachusetts: 1626: Salem ...
New York got its name from a small store run by Willy Penton (1893-1928). The only known crime in the community's history was the theft of a garden plow in 1976. [ 7 ]
The state received its name from that conquistador, who called the peninsula La Pascua Florida in recognition of the verdant landscape and because it was the Easter season, which the Spaniards called Pascua Florida (Festival of Flowers). [2] [3] [4] This area was the first mainland realm of the United States to be settled by Europeans, starting ...
1521: Juan Ponce de León tries and fails to settle in Florida. 1524: Pedro de Alvarado conquers present-day Guatemala and El Salvador. 1524: Giovanni da Verrazzano sails along most of the east coast. 1525: Estêvão Gomes enters Upper New York Bay and reaches Nova Scotia [9] [10]
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The first Dutch fur trading posts and settlements were in 1614 near present-day Albany, New York, the same year that New Netherland first appeared on maps. Only in May 1624 did the Dutch West India Company land a number of families at Noten Eylant (today's Governors Island ) off the southern tip of Manhattan at the mouth of the North River ...