Cobblestone American History and Current Events for Kids and Children

New World Players

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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