The Castello Plan, New Amsterdam in 1660
Underground, archeologists have found evidence of the plots of houses and gardens, yellow brick from Amsterdam, and pollen samples of plans. The Castello Plan is the earliest known “map” of New York City. The perspective bird’s-eye view was a radically novel idea in both city planning and cartography at the time.
A 1660 map of the city of New Amsterdam called the Castello Plan.
The Castello Plan is a map of New Amsterdam created by surveyor Jacques Cortelyou in 1660. It provides a detailed view of the layout and land use in New Amsterdam, including Fort Amsterdam, streets, homes and businesses, the canal, and the wall along the northern edge of the city that was built to keep the British out.
Castello Plan - Wikipedia
The Castello Plan – officially entitled Afbeeldinge van de Stadt Amsterdam in Nieuw Neederlandt (Dutch, "Picture of the City of Amsterdam in New Netherland") – is an early city map of what is now the Financial District of Lower Manhattan from an original of 1660.
Map of New Amsterdam in 1660 · SHEC: Resources for Teachers
Dec 10, 2024 · This map of New Amsterdam, a 1916 pen-and-ink drawing copied from the 1660 original, shows the Dutch settlement on the southern tip of Manhattan (the map is oriented so that the southernmost part of the island appears to be facing west).
Map of New Amsterdam - Atlas of mutual heritage
Map of New Amsterdam Vingboons, Johannes / Courtelyou, Jacques Vingboons based this map of New Amsterdam on the work of the resident surveyor Jacques Cortelyou, who in 1660 was tasked by the city government to map the city.
Mapping Early New York - New Amsterdam History
Underground, archeologists have found evidence of the plots of houses and gardens, Amsterdam yellow brick, and pollen samples of plants. You can swipe the map to compare the Castello Plan in 1660 to the present, and explore each lot, where it shows what was there and who lived there.
The Original City Map of New Amsterdam Circa 1660
Jan 8, 2015 · The Castello plan is the earliest known plan of New Amsterdam, and the only one dating from the Dutch period. This drawing and the Manatus map of the island reproduced earlier are among the most important topographical documents that have survived from the period of the Dutch rule of New York.
Castello Plan - Map of New Amsterdam in 1660 - Geographic …
The earliest known urban map of New Amsterdam and the only one dating from the period of the Dutch rule of New York. It is believed it was copied by an unknown draftsman around 1665-1670 from the survey made by Jacques Cortelyou (ca 1625–1693) in the summer of 1660, now lost.
What did New Amsterdam look like 1650 - 1660?
What did New Amsterdam look like 1650 - 1660? Houses and gardens in New Amsterdam during the late Dutch period are shown in amazing detail in three images courtesy of the New York Public Library, the Maps Division of the Library of Congress and Columbia University.
New York Before New York: The Castello Plan of New Amsterdam
Feb 9, 2024 · The Castello Plan, a map depicting New Amsterdam at the peak of its settlement circa 1660, just before the English took control, provides a remarkable, rare glimpse of everyday life in New Amsterdam, revealing a small but complex city at the southern tip of the island then known as Mannahatta.
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