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Aug 19, 2014 · Aug. 25, 2014. Because of an editing error, an article on Wednesday about Jonas Bronck and the connection between Savsjo, his hometown in Sweden, and what is now the Bronx — where he arrived 375 ...
It is currently located at 400 East Fordham Road. Jonas Bronck Academy opened its doors in 1997 with 72 students. The school had two sixth and one-seventh-grade classes. Presently, Jonas Bronck is home to 237 students, called scholars, and a staff of 45 members. The 6th, 7th, and 8th-grade students are grouped into three cohorts in grades 6th ...
Jul 23, 2009 · His farm (known as Bronck’s Land, and then just Broncksland), covered roughly the area south of today’s 150 th Street in the Bronx. The original price paid for the Bronx, or a large share of it, was as follows: 2 gunns, 2 kettles, 2 coats, 2 shirts, 2 adzes, 1 barrel of cider, and 6 bitts of money.
Jan 10, 2024 · Jonas Bronck is Notable. Jonas Jonasson Bronck, or Brunck, was born in Jönköping County, Småland, Sweden. [1] The municipality of Sävsjö claims the honor of his birth in the nearby hamlet of Komstad, Norra Ljunga socken. [2] He was about 40 at the time of his marriage, born around the year 1600.
Dec 30, 2008 · December 30, 2008. People often wonder why the Bronx, alone of all New York’s boroughs, has “the” as part of its name. It’s because the borough is named after the Bronx River and the river was named for a man born in far-off Sweden. In 1639 Jonas Bronck arrived in the Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam and purchased from the local Native ...
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.
NRHP reference No. 84002395 [1] Added to NRHP. September 29, 1984. Bronck Farm 13-Sided Barn is a historic barn located at Coxsackie in Greene County, New York. It was built about 1832 and is a 13 sided frame structure with a hipped roof surmounted by an octagonal cupola. It has an overall diameter of 70 feet and the one story interior is open ...
