Results for Fort Amsterdam
Fort Amsterdam
Birth of a City: Nieuw Amsterdam & Old New York
INTRODUCTION
In September 1609, Henry Hudson and some 20 seamen sailed their ship, the Halve Maen (Half Moon), into what is today New York harbor. The Dutch East India Company expected Hudson ...
photo_library
Fort Amsterdam
Adjoining this site was the first Dutch fort on Manhattan Island known as Fort Amsterdam. The first house was erected here before 1664. In 1771 Captain Archibald Kennedy built here his residence which was used in 1776 by General George ...
photo_library