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Robert Edwards (supposedly died c.1738) [1] was a Welsh buccaneer who descendants claim was given 77 acres (310,000 m 2) of largely unsettled Manhattan by Queen Anne of the Kingdom of Great Britain for his services in disrupting Spanish sea lanes. Edwards is said to have leased his New York property to the brothers John and George Cruger for 99 ...
The Iconography of Manhattan Island Vol. 1 frontispiece. The Iconography of Manhattan Island is a six volume study of the history of New York City by Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes, published between 1915 and 1928 by R. H. Dodd in New York. The work comprehensively records and documents key events of the city's chronology from the 16th to the early ...
An 1865 map of Lower Manhattan below 14th Street showing land reclamation along the shoreline. [1]The expansion of the land area of Lower Manhattan in New York City by land reclamation has, over time, greatly altered Manhattan Island's shorelines on the Hudson and East rivers as well as those of the Upper New York Bay.
Location of New York County in New York. There are 588 properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in New York County, New York, which consists of Manhattan Island, the Marble Hill neighborhood on the mainland north of the Harlem River Ship Canal, and adjacent smaller islands around it.
Manhattan (/ m æ n ˈ h æ t ən, m ə n-/ ⓘ man-HAT-ən, mən-) is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City.Coextensive with New York County, Manhattan is the smallest county by area in the U.S. state of New York.
In addition to the three principal islands of New York City—Manhattan Island, Staten Island and part of Long Island—each borough contains several smaller islands. New York City contains about 36 to 42 islands in total. [1]
Fort Amsterdam, (later, Fort George among other names) was a fortification on the southern tip of Manhattan Island at the confluence of the Hudson and East rivers in what is now New York City. The fort and the island were the center of trade and the administrative headquarters for the Dutch rule of the colony of New Netherland and thereafter ...
1524 – Giovanni da Verrazzano, the first European to see New York Harbor arrives and names it Nouvelle-Angoulême. 1613 – Juan (Jan) Rodriguez [1] [2] [3] became the first documented non-Native American to live on Manhattan Island. [4]