A home geography of New York city . fort to the ferry was throughStone and Pearl streets. The land now between Pearl street andthe river is made land. CHAPTER XXVII HOW NEW AMSTERDAM CHANGED FROM A DUTCH TRADING POST TO A DUTCH CITY The first settlers did not plan a city with streets and avenuesrunning in straight lines; they thought only of the fur a few years they found out that the lumber was valuable,and that New Netherland was a good farming country. RichDutch merchants came to New Netherland and invested moneyin land and business. The boroughs ofThe Bronx, Brooklyn,Queens, an
A home geography of New York city . fort to the ferry was throughStone and Pearl streets. The land now between Pearl street andthe river is made land. CHAPTER XXVII HOW NEW AMSTERDAM CHANGED FROM A DUTCH TRADING POST TO A DUTCH CITY The first settlers did not plan a city with streets and avenuesrunning in straight lines; they thought only of the fur a few years they found out that the lumber was valuable,and that New Netherland was a good farming country. RichDutch merchants came to New Netherland and invested moneyin land and business. The boroughs ofThe Bronx, Brooklyn,Queens, and Richmondwere purchased fromthe Indians, and alsomiles and miles of landalong the Hudsonriver to Albany. TheDutch bought all thisland cheap, but theygave the Indians the price they asked for it. It was paid for withcloth, tools, cooking utensils, beads, ornaments, etc. Dutch farmerscame and settled in the five boroughs and along the shores of theHudson river. Thus New Netherland became a farming as well asa commercial colony. 137. T. Smits Vlv in Early Times, Foot ofMaiden Lane 138 HOME GEOGRAPHY OF NEW YORK CITY The first settlers in the five boroughs selected the low land onthe water front for their farms. It was the most desirable land forthem, because the ground could be readily prepared for the plant-ing of grains and vegetables, and because the people depended onboats to go from place to place, and to New Amsterdam, the busi-ness center. The lower part of Manhattan was divided into smallfarms called bouweries. The road that led through these farmsto Stuyvesants country home was called Bouwerie Lane. To-daythat road is called the Bowery. The Dutch farmer in Manhattan built his house on any part ofhis land that he pleased. Pathways led from houses to barns, andlanes led from house to house, from farm to farm. Roads led to theStadt Huys, to the ferries, to the church in the fort, and to BowlingGreen, which was then a market place and a parade ground forsoldiers. Bowling Gre
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