New Netherland
I just learned some trivia from a JEOPARDY! clue about the last Dutch governor of colonia New York who first brought tea to America (this Chinese connection thus made the monumental Boston Tea Party possible for the British Crown a century later). In the past, I wondered what's Stuyvesant all about whenever I drove by the Stuyvesant Plaza near the Crossgates Mall in Albany. Aha, it's named after the Honorable Mr. Peter Stuyvesant who ceded to the English (the Duke of York) in 1664 (and New Netherland thence became New York). Now I have a better appreciation of the strong Dutch heritage in the capital district—with county names like Rensselaer and town names like Amsterdam. There's so much rich history hidden in an address/name. Cool!
scribbled by TX @ 8:03 PM
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"I saw an agricultural country [the Netherlands] with many windmills and many bicycles, and yet it was producing goods of excellent quality and had worldwide sales power."
New Netherland? I was under impression that under the Dutch rule NYC used to be known as New Amsterdam.
Alexei,
Yes, a bit confusion here: the city of New York was known as New Amsterdam prior to the English rule while the state of New York was part of the New Netherland colony under the Dutch rule.
More trivia: the first settlement was made at Fort Orange (after the House of Orange-Nassau) in 1624, although the colony centered on New Amsterdam at the tip of Manhattan Island after 1625–1626. Fort Orange is now Albany (after the Duke of York who was also the Duke of Albany).
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