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 * [[image:Picture1.png]] || Did you know that the name Manhattan comes from Manahatta ("hilly island"). The Lenape, the earliest known inhabitants of the area gave it that name. Legend has it that the island was purchased from them for $24 in beads and other such trinkets. The first European discovery of Manhattan is generally credited to English explorer Henry Hudson sailing for the Dutch, who first entered Upper New York Bay on September 11, 1609, and sailing up the lower Hudson River, anchored off the tip of northern Manhattan that night.
 * However, the earlier Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazano explored New York harbor in 1524, and a few months later so did the Portuguese Estevan Gomez; the latter also recognized the Hudson River (calling it the Rio de San Antonio), and both, in all likelihood, saw Manhattan island while in New York Harbor. || [[image:rensizzle/Picture6.png width="338" height="255" align="center"]] ||


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