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Manhattan

Probably the first White man to see what was to become the city of New York was Giovanni da Verrazano who sailed his ship Dauphine under French flag into the Lower Bay of New York harbor in 1524. A Portuguese explorer, Esteban Gomex, sailing under a Spanish flag entered the harbor in 1526 and Henry Hudson an Englishman sailing for the Dutch on the Half Moon, entered New York harbor on September 2, 1609. Adrian Block was the first white man to winter on Manhattan when his ship the Tiger, burned to the water line in 1614.

Apparently the roots of our rich cross cultural diversity can honestly be traced back to our very beginning for even the original Indian tribes who hunted beaver, white-tailed deer, gray wolves mountain lions, and mink, the single remaining breed to be found were from several branches of the Algonquinn tribe. The Indians named the island Manhattan which means island of hills however much confusion persists since there were more than fifty different ways in which it was spelled.

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