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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.
The Castello Plan is a map of New Amsterdam created by surveyor Jacques Cortelyou in 1660. 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.
14 mar 2017 · By 1664, the New Netherland population had grown to about nine thousand people, 2.5 thousand of whom lived in New Amsterdam, one thousand lived near Fort Orange, and the remains in other settlements. In 1664 the English took over New Amsterdam and renamed it New York City after the Duke of York.
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).
Insets: Dutch settlements around New Amsterdam -- Providence and Rhode Island Plantations -- Settlements in Massachusetts Bay Colony. "Specimen illustration from 'A history of the United States and its people.' by Elroy McKendree Avery."
I was night time in the Netherlands, but I always post this georeferenced map of New Amsterdam where you can see where it's located in current day Manhattan. Also paging u/Stellarsleeper
