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Manhattan's original coastline revealed when Hurricane Sandy flooded land reclaimed over 400 years
Street bordered the Hudson River to the west. A series of land reclamations, the first of which took place in 1646 under Peter Stuyvesant, who took over as the governor of New Amsterdam colony at the time, expanded the island between one and four blocks on from Daily Mail - UK Read more »
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This Day in History
1647, Peter Stuyvesant arrived in New Amsterdam to become governor of New Netherland. In 1858, Minnesota became the 32nd state of the Union. In 1862, during the Civil War, the Confederate ironclad CSS Virginia was scuttled by its crew off Craney Island, Va., from San Mateo Daily Journal Read more »
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More about the Peter Stuyvesant Post Office closing/relocating
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The Goats and Hogs Ordinance
is the 365th anniversary of the famous “goats and hogs ordinance” passed in New Netherland under the governorship of Peter Stuyvesant. Here’s the text of the ordinance: Whereas the Honble Director General and Council of New Netherland have daily seen and remarked from Patell And Watermans History Of New York Read more »
