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Bouwerij was the old Dutch word for farm (contemporary: boerderij). [34] The Dutch West India Company mapped out land for farms on Manhattan north of New Amsterdam , the first of which, "Bouerij 1" (later known as Stuyvesant Farm ) was reserved for the support of the colony's director-general.
The Dutch people inhabiting the region had at first built primitive dikes to protect their settlements from the sea. [1] In the northern parts of the Netherlands sea levels fell exposing new land at a rate of 5–10 meters per year between 500 BC and 500 AD. This natural process was exploited to claim new agricultural lands.
Peter Stuyvesant's house on the Great Bowery. Stuyvesant Farm, also known as the Great Bowery, was the estate of Peter Stuyvesant, the last Dutch director-general of the colony of New Netherland, as well as his predecessors and later his familial descendants.
Penn Avenue in Wyomissing. Wyomissing is located in central Berks County at (40.332742, −75.964603 It is bordered by the city of Reading to the northeast and southeast, by West Reading directly to the east, by the borough of Shillington and Cumru Township to the south, by Spring Township to the west and northwest, and by Bern Township to the north.
List of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Dutchess County, New York. This is intended to be a complete list of the 130 properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Dutchess County, New York outside of Poughkeepsie and Rhinebeck.
Peaceful Meadows began as a farm in 1920. William and Nellia Hogg opened their ice cream shop there in 1962. They opened a second location in Middleboro in 1977 and the Plymouth shop four years later.
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This is a Dutch landscape park, located between the cities of Arnhem and Nijmegen. The most notable part of Park Lingezegen that runs through Bemmel is the estate of Doornik . It is an important area for rare Dutch meadow birds, including the grey partridge , yellowhammer , and Eurasian skylark .