Menu
Cart 0

News — New York Colony Facts

Nutmeg for New York

Posted by Pearse Fee on

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 […]

Read more →