A home geography of New York city . tspeak Dutch. The Indians had their own language and their ownnames for everything. They called the Dutch cloth workers andiron workers because they made cloth and articles of iron. CHAPTER XXVIII PETER STUYVESANT Peter Stuyvesant was the fourth and last Dutch governor ofNew Netherland. As soon as the Indians saw him they called himFather Wooden Leg because he had a wooden leg. Governor Stuy-vesant was a soldier and hadlost his leg while fighting. He lived in a town housenear the site of South house was afterwardscalled the White Hall, andthe stree
A home geography of New York city . tspeak Dutch. The Indians had their own language and their ownnames for everything. They called the Dutch cloth workers andiron workers because they made cloth and articles of iron. CHAPTER XXVIII PETER STUYVESANT Peter Stuyvesant was the fourth and last Dutch governor ofNew Netherland. As soon as the Indians saw him they called himFather Wooden Leg because he had a wooden leg. Governor Stuy-vesant was a soldier and hadlost his leg while fighting. He lived in a town housenear the site of South house was afterwardscalled the White Hall, andthe street where it stood iscalled Whitehall street. Hiscountry home was on hisbouwerie, which extendedfrom about 16th street toCooper square, and from 4tliavenue to the East house was built at apoint east of 3d avenue andnorth of 10th Stuyvesant employed many workmen, and in a fewyears there was (juite a little village on his land, called Bouwerievillage. There was a free school in his village. Stuyvesant gave 140. Il;! Ki; 8ti:vvesant PETER STUYVESANT 141 great attention to his farm and gardens. Until the year 1867 apear tree that had been planted in his orchard stood at the cornerof 13th street and 3d avenue. He built a chapel in Bouwerie village, and when he died hewas buried in the family vault under the little Dutch village afterward the chapel was torn down, but his remains werenot disturbed. St. Marks church now stands on the site of the oneStuyvesant built, and his tombstone is fastened to the east is the oldest church site in New York now occupied bya church. The Stuyvesant High School, near Stuyvesant square, is onthe northern part of Stuyvesants farm and in the old Bouwerievillage. CHAPTER XXIX EARLY ORGANIZATION City Departments of New Amsterdam Governor Stuyvesant made the little settlement look like a cityby laying out some streets and by having a few paved. He com-pelled the people who lived in these streets to keep them c
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