Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1914 — New York 300 Years Old. [ARTICLE]

New York 300 Years Old.

It is Just three hundred yean since the flnt houses, or rather huts, were built by white men on Manhattan Island. A little later the flnt vessel ever built by white men on this continent was successfully launched. Arrangements are being made by the Holland Society of New York to celebnte this tercentenary. The first houses stood where now is the HamburgAm eric an Line Building No. 45 Broadway, and the flnt shipyard was near by. The flnt vessel'was called the Onrust or Restless. "It was 44 (Set I InfhM in lenxth.