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Chapter 2 Early History to 1815, Page 24
The bark-covered longhouses of the Long Island Indians were from eighteen to twenty feet wide and more than 150 feet long. Settlements, fishing camps, and planting fields lined the river from Castle Hill, Clasons Point, and Throgs Neck in the Bronx, the Battery and Harlem in Manhattan, Bridge Street in Brooklyn, to Maspeth, Pot Cove, and Flushing in Queens. The earliest European settlements were near these native sites. (Courtesy GAHS)
This is one of the earliest views of Nieuw Amsterdam from about 1626. It was published in Amsterdam in 1651. It accurately portrays everything from native dugout canoes to Dutch ships of the fleet on the East River. Contemporary sources state that most canoes were small but that some were up to 50 feet long and held 10-12 people. (Courtesy GAHS)
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