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Eventually the sturdy Dane's name began to be used for all the land beyond the river, and people spoke of going to "Bronck's" or "the Bronck's".

Oh, Christiana. I had a feeling you wasn't an HEA waiting for you.

"This was their land, not because they had bought it, not because they owned a piece of paper with their name on it, not because a king who lived far away granted them a charter...This was his land and had been his as far back as the memory of man extended. He could not undertand why it would not be his land forever."

More factoids. How Nutten Island become Governors Island.

"Although Krol's accomplishments were modest, to say the least, a new word as added to the language because of his preferred food." krol-ers, or crullers

"The main street of the fledgling New Amsterdam was de Heere Straat--The Broad Way, a wide, generous avenue..."

This island stretched from Manhatas far out into the Atlantic. Block had begun calling it "Long Island" and because the name seemed appropriate, others took to calling it that.