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February 01, 2012 05:11:22 PM

name:

Elizabeth S. Titus

location:

Upper West Side/CPW

object:

A container of Hudson River water.

description:

Without the Hudson River, it is doubtful that Manhattan would have been settled when it was.

English explorer Henry Hudson -- sailing for the Dutch -- on September 11, 1609 sailed up the lower Hudson River and anchored off the tip of northern Manhattan. He saw the island for the first time from this vantage point.

The island was settled by the Dutch in 1624. And the rest is history!

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