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http://www.nnp.org/newvtour/

Welcome to New Netherland.  If you are a first-time
visitor, you are about to enter a lost world.  Then
again, you may soon discover that you've been here
before.  In fact, you may live here.  New Netherland
was a colony founded by the Dutch on the east coast of
North America in the seventeenth century, which
vanished when the English wrested control of it in
1664, turning its capital, New Amsterdam, into New
York City.  It extended from Albany, New York, in the
north to Delaware in the south.  It encompassed parts
of what are now the states of New York, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, Maryland, Connecticut and Delaware.

New Netherland got underway at about the same time the
Pilgrims were settling Cape Cod and the Jamestown
colony was establishing itself in Virginia, but you
wouldn't know that from most history books.  To visit
New Netherland is to see familiar places in new ways. 
It is to see Manhattan not as the steel-and-concrete
center of the financial world, but a forested island
with a tiny, rough-and-ready European settlement
clinging to its southern tip. It is to imagine what is
now the northeastern United States as a virgin
wilderness, inhabited by native Americans and small
groups of European settlers, who navigated not by
roads or even forest paths but by the watery highways
of the region: the Hudson, Delaware, and Connecticut
Rivers.  In New Netherland you will discover
familiar-sounding places: Lang Eylant (Long Island),
Breuckelen (Brooklyn), Haarlem, Staten Eylant (Staten
Island) (named after the "Staten Generaal" or States
General, the governing body in the seventeenth-century
Netherlands)—all testaments to the legacy of New
Netherland and its contributions to American history
and culture.   

But place names only scratch the surface of New
Netherland's legacy.  From Santa Claus to log cabins,
pancakes to cole slaw, multiculturalism to upward
mobility, New Netherland influenced American culture
in surprising ways



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