New York-Quadricentennial Plaza-Jamestown Settlement - VA
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N 37° 13.565 W 076° 46.973
18S E 341830 N 4121441
Following the explorations of Verrazano in New York Bay, French explorer Samuel de Champlain and English explorer Henry Hudson (employed by the Dutch) investigated this area in 1609.
Waymark Code: WM13DAA
Location: Virginia, United States
Date Posted: 11/13/2020
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New York-Quadricentennial Plaza— Jamestown Settlement —
One of the thirteen original colonies
Capital-Albany
Following the explorations of Verrazano in New York Bay, French explorer Samuel de Champlain and English explorer Henry Hudson (employed by the Dutch) investigated this area in 1609. By the 1620s the Dutch had established a permanent settlement which they named New Amsterdam. In 1664 they surrendered control of New Amsterdam (New Netherland) to the English. The territory was renamed New York after James, Duke of York and Albany, who later became King James II.
1524-Explored by Giovanni da Verrazano for France
1620s-Permanently settled by the Dutch
1788-Admitted to the Union as the 11th state.
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