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New York History
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Dutch West India Company established the first settlement at
Fort Orange near present day Albany in 1624 and another in New
Amsterdam on the site of present day Manhanttan a year later.
After the English took over in the 1660s, the colony was renamed
New York, after the Duke of York. One of the original 13 states
to join the Union (it entered in 1788), New York is known as the
"Empire State." The state includes everything from skyscrapers
in Manhattan to rivers, mountains, and lakes in upstate New
York. Today, New York has the third largest population (after
California and Texas), and remains the financial center of the
country. The state flower is the rose, and the capital is
Albany. |
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