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Jonas Bronck Farm Audio Tour. New-York Historical Society· Jonas Bronck Farm. Transcript: The year is 1639. Less than 150 years from when Columbus first reached North America. Thirty years from when Dutch Explorer Henry Hudson sailed up what is now the Hudson River as part of his unsuccessful search for a faster passage by sea from Europe to Asia.
Bronck's farm, a tract of 274 hectares (680 acres), known as the biblical Emmaus, Bronck's Land, and then just Broncksland, or simply Bronck's— covered roughly the area emanating from general vicinity of Willis Avenue and 132nd Street in the Bronx in what, today, is Mott Haven.
Dec 3, 2014 · by Matt Coneybeare at 12:41 PM on December 3, 2014. On December 3rd, 1639, Jonas Bronck purchased 50 acres of land to the north of Manhattan Island that later grew into 680 acres of farmland. People in the City would visit the farmland for a getaway from the hustle and bustle of 17th century City life, and heading on up to the farm would be ...
Sep 29, 2008 · Jonas the Peacemaker. Jonas Bronck, who gave his name to the Bronx River, was also a man of peace who sought to reconcile a festering conflict between the Native Americans and the Dutch colonists of New AmsterdamBronck was a deeply religious man who named his new home “Emmaus” for the biblical place visited by the risen Christ, and whose 40-book library contained mainly religious and ...
5 days ago · On December 3rd 1641, Jonas Bronck, a Danish immigrant to New York City, bought about 500 acres of land above Manhattan. According to the Bronx Historical Society, the first settlement is in ...
Bronck's becomes Bronx. Bronck's farm, a tract of 274 hectares (680 acres), known as the biblical Emmaus, Bronck's Land, and then just Broncksland, or simply Bronck's— covered roughly the area emanating from general vicinity of Willis Avenue and 132nd Street in the Bronx in what, today, is Mott Haven.
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The New Yorker, May 6, 1939 P. 13. Talk. In 1639, Jonas Bronck came here from Amsterdam and bought 500 acres of land from the Indians, the land was called Bronck's Land; Bronxland, and finally the ...
