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General Worth by Mathew Brady. The history of Fort Worth, Texas, in the United States is closely intertwined with that of northern Texas and the Texan frontier. From its early history as an outpost and a threat against Native American residents, to its later days as a booming cattle town, to modern times as a corporate center, the city has changed dramatically, although it still preserves much ...
The Colony of New Netherland: A Dutch Settlement in Seventeenth-Century America (2009) excerpt and text search; Kammen, Michael. Colonial New York: A History New York: Oxford University Press, 1975. Kilpatrick, William Heard. The Dutch schools of New Netherland and colonial New York (1912) online; McFarlane, Jim.
In 1617, officials of the Dutch West India Company in New Netherland created a settlement at present-day Albany, and in 1624 founded New Amsterdam, on Manhattan Island.The Dutch colony included claims to an area comprising all of the present U.S. states of New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Vermont, along with inland portions of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Maine in addition to eastern ...
New York Yacht Club founded. 1845 Bowery Theatre opens. New York City Police Department, and New York Art Union [21] established. Fire. [38] 1846 – Stewart Dry Goods Store built. [34] 1847 Free Academy of the City of New York founded (later City College of New York). [21] [7] Madison Square Park and Astor Opera House open. Grace Church built.
Peter Stuyvesant [note 1] (c. 1610 – August 1672) [1] [2] was a Dutch colonial administrator who served as the director-general of New Netherland from 1647 to 1664, when the colony was provisionally ceded to the Kingdom of England. [3]
1964 – Fort Worth Civil Liberties Union formed. [24] 1968 – Fort Worth Museum of Science and History active. 1969 Alleged Lake Worth Monster spotted. Historic Fort Worth nonprofit established. [25] 1970 – Population: 393,476. [15] 1972 – Kimbell Art Museum opened. [7] 1973 Dallas/Fort Worth Airport began operating. [7] Fort Worth ...
Fort Amsterdam was a fortification on the southern tip of Manhattan Island at the confluence of the Hudson and East rivers. The fort and the island were the center of trade and the administrative headquarters for the Dutch and then British/Colonial rule of the colony of New Netherland and thereafter the Province of New York.
The Province of New York thrived during this time, its economy strengthened by Long Island and Hudson Valley agriculture, in conjunction with trade and artisanal activity at the Port of New York; the colony was a breadbasket and lumberyard for the British sugar colonies in the Caribbean. New York's population grew substantially during this ...