amsterdam, n.y. history

Amsterdam (town)

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Amsterdam is a town in Montgomery County, New York, United States. The population was 5,566 at the 2010 census. ... The town is named after Amsterdam, the capital ...

Amsterdam | Hudson Valley

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Amsterdam

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The settlement was incorporated as a village on April 20, 1830, from a section of the Town of Amsterdam. This was a period of rapid growth for the village, ...

Fort Amsterdam

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The fort was the nucleus of the settlement on the island which was named New Amsterdam and eventually renamed New York by the English, and was central to much ...

History

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It was named in honor of David Crane, who settled there in 1804, and kept a hotel for many years. It contained a small station of the New York Central Railroad, ...

History of Amsterdam

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Very few changes except the name: tradition has it that in 1804 Amsterdam is chosen in honor of early Dutch settlers (it may have also been thought a good idea ...

History of Amsterdam

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It was incorporated as a town in 1831 and as a city in 1885. The oldest house now within present day Amsterdam is Guy Park Manor, built in 1766 by Sir William ...

New Amsterdam

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New Amsterdam was a 17th-century Dutch settlement established at the southern tip of Manhattan Island that served as the seat of the colonial government in ...

Our City

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History of Amsterdam ... When and how the first human settlers, ancestors of today's Native Americans, arrived in the vicinity is still debated; however, by the ...

Short History of the City of Amsterdam

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In 1830 the village of Amsterdam was incorporated. IN 1854 it was granted a village charter which conferred greater powers on the village ...