Sawkill mill
Videos
The Sawkill mill was a sawmill and slave quarters established by the Dutch West India Company in 1626, as part of the construction of New Netherland, a colonial province in North America. The mill was
Remnant of the Sawkill in Central Park
New Amsterdam's windmills
Videos
In September 1609, Henry Hudson, accompanied by around 20 sailors, navigated the Halve Maen into present-day New York Harbor. Tasked by the Dutch East India Company to discover a route to Asia, Hudson
New Amsterdam and its people; under Dutch and early English rule
The Fall of New Amsterdam
The capitulation of Peter Stuyvesant in New Amsterdam (by Charles Hemstreet)
Image of Nieuw Amsterdam made in 1664, the year that it was surrendered to English forces under Richard Nicolls