What to see in America . A Windmill Easthampton, LongIsland 104 What to See in America The name of the state was given in honor of the Duke ofYork, to whom his brother, Charles II, granted the regionin 1664. The people are called Knickerbockers. Knickermeans a box, and bock a he-goat, and the entire name seemsto have been coined by Washington Irving to serve for thatof one of his fictitious Delaware Water Gap IX New Jersey In 1651 the Swedes who had settled Delaware crossed theriver a few miles south of Wilmington and built Fort Elfs-borg at the mouth of Salem Creek. But they soon
What to see in America . A Windmill Easthampton, LongIsland 104 What to See in America The name of the state was given in honor of the Duke ofYork, to whom his brother, Charles II, granted the regionin 1664. The people are called Knickerbockers. Knickermeans a box, and bock a he-goat, and the entire name seemsto have been coined by Washington Irving to serve for thatof one of his fictitious Delaware Water Gap IX New Jersey In 1651 the Swedes who had settled Delaware crossed theriver a few miles south of Wilmington and built Fort Elfs-borg at the mouth of Salem Creek. But they soon desertedtheir stronghold in disgust after giving it a name whichwas equivalent to Fort Mosquito. Thus early did NewJersey mosquitoes earn the reputation that clings to themto this day, and it is perhaps only natural that New Jerseyshould sometimes be dubbed The Mosquito State. It is,however, more generally called the Jersey Blue State,which refers to New Jerseys overstrict and religious earlyblue laws. The people are nicknamed Clam-catchersfrom the principal occupation of many of its poorer dwellerson the coast. The Dutch were the first permanent settlers. Some oftheir traders occupied Bergen Point, now a part of JerseyCity, about 1615, and in 1623 a party of Dutch built Fort 105 106 What to See in America Nassau, on the east bank of the Delaware four miles be-low Philadelphia. But not until th
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