The Return of the Experiment by Len Tantilo Introduction Your mind drifts off as your teacher talks about the Dutch here in America. You picture...
Fort Orange by Len Tantillo The gateway into the fort is on your right. You look up and stare at the fort’s walls. They aren’t...
Arent van Curler’s Farm by Len Tantillo Archaeologist James Bradley explains: “At the Flatts, the most important building was a combination house and barn. This...
New Amsterdam by Johannes Vingboons. You find yourself walking up a short street into New Amsterdam. Funny, you don’t remember the trip down the North...
1609 Henry Hudson sails into New York Harbor and up the Hudson River, claiming the land for the Dutch. 1614 The Dutch establish Fort Nassau,...
Breeches short pants Loop holes openings through which a gun can be put through while the gun owner stays safe behind the fort wall Palisade a wall made...
Bradley, James W. Before Albany: An Archaeology of Native-Dutch Relations in the Capital Region, 1600-1664. Albany: University of New York Press, 2007. Davis, Kevin A. Look What...
Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NYExhibits and paintings of the early Dutch in America. Crailo State Historic Site, Rensselaer, NYExhibits with artifacts...
Fort Orange by Len Tantillo Dutch settler Adriaen van der Donck describes the arrival of Petrus Stuyvesant:“His first arrival was like a peacock, with great...
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