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When New York Was New

The Dutch arrived in North America in 1609. Dutch trading companies sent explorers across the Atlantic Ocean. Those expeditions established fur-trading  outposts along the Hudson and Delaware rivers. The Dutch town of New Amsterdam on the island of present-day

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