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It provides a detailed view of the layout and land use in New Amsterdam, including Fort Amsterdam, streets, homes and businesses, the canal, and the wall along the northern edge of the city that was built to keep the British out.
Underground, archeologists have found evidence of the plots of houses and gardens, yellow brick from Amsterdam, and pollen samples of plans. The Castello Plan is the earliest known “map” of New York City. The perspective bird’s-eye view was a radically novel idea in both city planning and cartography at the time.
Map of New Amsterdam Vingboons, Johannes / Courtelyou, Jacques Vingboons based this map of New Amsterdam on the work of the resident surveyor Jacques Cortelyou, who in 1660 was tasked by the city government to map the city.
What did New Amsterdam look like 1650 - 1660? Houses and gardens in New Amsterdam during the late Dutch period are shown in amazing detail in three images courtesy of the New York Public Library, the Maps Division of the Library of Congress and Columbia University.
The Castello Plan – officially entitled Afbeeldinge van de Stadt Amsterdam in Nieuw Neederlandt (Dutch, "Picture of the City of Amsterdam in New Netherland") – is an early city map of what is now the Financial District of Lower Manhattan from an original of 1660.
12 lis 2024 · This map of New Amsterdam, a 1916 pen-and-ink drawing copied from the 1660 original, shows the Dutch settlement on the southern tip of Manhattan (the map is oriented so that the southernmost part of the island appears to be facing west).
The map is commonly called the Castello Plan after the location in a Tuscan castle where it was discovered. Original title (Dutch): Afbeeldinge van de Stadt Amsterdam in Nieuw Neederlandt ("Picture of the City of Amsterdam in New Netherland").
