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The Maritime Museum (Dutch: Het Scheepvaartmuseum, pronounced [ət ˈsxeːpfaːrtmyˌzeːjʏm]) is a maritime museum in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. The museum had 419,060 visitors in 2012. [ 5 ] It ranked as 11th most visited museum in the Netherlands in 2013. [ 6 ]
History of New York City; Lenape and New Netherland, to 1664 New Amsterdam British and Revolution, 1665–1783 Federal and early American, 1784–1854 Tammany and Consolidation, 1855–1897
The Stadt Huys (an old Dutch spelling, meaning city hall) was the first city hall in New York City, United States. It was built in 1642 by the Dutch, when the settlement was named New Amsterdam. The building was used until 1697, when the structure was no longer deemed safe for occupants.
Amsterdam Scheepvaarthuis (2011) The Shipping House (Dutch: Scheepvaarthuis) is a building on the western tip of the Waalseiland near Amsterdam harbour that is one of the top 100 Dutch heritage sites and generally regarded as the first true example of the Amsterdam School, a style characterised by "expressive dynamism, lavish ornamentation and colourful embellishments". [1]
On August 15, 1648, he appointed Jan DeWitt as the miller with a monthly salary of forty florins ($16.00). Stuyvesant instructed DeWitt to only grind grain with a certificate from the mill's comptroller. Two years later, a census conducted in New Amsterdam disclosed a population of one thousand inhabitants and 120 houses. The Fall of New Amsterdam
Amsterdam (/ ˈ æ m s t ər d æ m /) is a city in Montgomery County, New York, United States.As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 18,219. The city is named after Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
SS Nieuw Amsterdam was a Dutch transatlantic ocean liner that was built in 1938 and scrapped in 1974. She was the second Holland America Line (Nederlandsch-Amerikaansche Stoomvaart Maatschappij, or NASM) ship to be named after the former Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, now New York.
Shortly thereafter, he leased a bouwerie in New Amsterdam [10] and managed it until 1636, when he was granted a patent of several hundred acres on Long Island. He called his plantation "Achervelt"; later it served as the founding of the town of New Amersfoort, named after Gerritse's original home. [3] Today the area is known as Flatlands.