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The Mapping Early New York Project overlays the Castello plan with maps of New York today, and an Encyclopedia, along with 3D models. The Plan is a surveyor’s depiction of what old New Amsterdam was like.
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.
Underground, archeologists have found evidence of the plots of houses and gardens, Amsterdam yellow brick, and pollen samples of plants. You can swipe the map to compare the Castello Plan in 1660 to the present, and explore each lot, where it shows what was there and who lived there.
14 mar 2017 · Below are the historical maps of New Amsterdam and New Netherlands. “The city of the Dutch West India as ‘Dirk Storm First’ knew it in 1662.” New Amsterdam was a 17th-century Dutch settlement founded at the strategic southern point of Manhattan Island that functioned as the colonial administration place in New Netherland.
It is believed it was copied by an unknown draftsman around 1665-1670 from the survey made by Jacques Cortelyou (ca 1625–1693) in the summer of 1660, now lost. The map is commonly called the Castello Plan after the location in a Tuscan castle where it was discovered.
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.
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.
