ny map Archives - TravelsFinders.Com ® http://travelsfinders.com/tag/ny-map Fri, 02 Oct 2020 14:47:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 Buffalo Map http://travelsfinders.com/buffalo-map.html http://travelsfinders.com/buffalo-map.html#respond Thu, 03 Nov 2016 11:56:33 +0000 http://travelsfinders.com/?p=209035 The leaders in these projects were usually urban commercial interests. Philadelphia was the most active center of canal promotion. Buffalo Map Thomas Gilpin, a Quaker merchant and member of the Country Philosophical Society, was the most vigorous promoter of a canal connecting the Delaware with the Chesapeake. Philadelphia merchants subscribed 140 pounds to surveying possible routes, while Baltimore merchants charged the Philadelphians with planning to divert trade from their city. The scheme was supplemented by another plan to connect the Susquehanna and the Schuykill Rivers. These proposed canals led to much activity by the Country Philosophical Society, the Pennsylvania Assembly,

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]]> http://travelsfinders.com/buffalo-map.html/feed 0 New York Map http://travelsfinders.com/new-york-map.html http://travelsfinders.com/new-york-map.html#respond Tue, 30 Aug 2016 12:47:05 +0000 http://travelsfinders.com/?p=217058 New Amsterdam In 1609 the East India Company of Holland sent an Englishman. Henry Hudson, to look for a westward route to the Indies. He didn’t find what he was after but he sailed up the broad river (later named after him) that empties into the bay and discovered the beautiful, bountiful Hudson Valley. Returning to Holland with quantities of furs, fruit and tobacco. Hudson stirred up a good deal of interest. A group of merchants founded the United New Netherland Company, which was to have a trading monopoly in the area. Then, in 1621, the Dutch West India Company

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