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Updated: May 9, 2025
But he had them placed in such a position that the building in the fort cut off the wind from their sails, and the mills were almost useless. The Governor did not neglect his own comfort, for within Fort Amsterdam he built for himself a fine house of brick finer than any in the little settlement and on one of the bouweries nearest the fort, he erected a summer-house.
Inside this fort there was a house for the Governor, and outside the walls was a warehouse for furs, and a mill which was run by horse-power, with a large room on the second floor to be used as a church. When Minuit had become fairly settled in his new colony, he divided the lower part of the island into farms, which in those days were called "bouweries."
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