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Nutmeg for New York
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New York History On February 2nd 1653 New Amsterdam received municipal rights thus becoming a city. We at present affectionately refer to it as New York. The original span (acquired by a wily Dutchman, Peter Minuit) was only a section of Lower Manhattan, but has throughout its tumultuous past been known as Fort Amsterdam, New […]
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