This was a garden for the DWIC to raise food for the community.

Dated 1-1-1664 pending further research.

This was an old church yard.

Dated 1-1-1664 pending further research.

This was a garden for the DWIC to raise food for the community.

Dated 1-1-1664 pending further research.

The Fort was originally made of wooden timbers.

Construction on Fort Amsterdam was begun in 1625 by Dutch West India Company surveyor and engineer Crijn Fredericksz. Despite professional advice that a masonry structure would best withstand the elements of the waterfront site on which it was built, plus the depredations of rooting hogs and pigs, the fort was constructed of timber and suffered much degradation over time. A four-sided structure with bastions at each corner to protect the sod-covered rubble-filled walls of clay and sand, it  was finally torn down in 1790 following the American Revolution.  During its day, it was variously the center of New Amsterdam’s trading activity, soldiers’ barracks, by 1642 the Reformed Dutch Church, the WIC Director’s house, and a storage depot for West India Company goods. 

This was a garden for the DWIC to raise food for the community.

Dated 1-1-1664 pending further research.

Link:
https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2301741/baptist-church-cemetery

Earliest Grave:
Nicholas Wright
November 1682
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/52536801/nicholas-wright

Link:
https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2289834/montauk-indian-burial-ground

Earliest Grave:
Poggatticut
January 1651
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/69593515/poggatticut

Link:
https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2554533/old-bowne-family-burial-ground

Earliest Grave:
Infant Son Bowne
1672
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/136241367/infant-son-bowne

Link:
https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2316690/poggatticut-burial-ground

Earliest Grave:
Sachem Poggatticut
May 1651
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40152878/sachem-poggatticut

Link:
https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2442455/quaker-burial-ground

Earliest Grave:
Peter Wright
1663
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/87207538/peter-wright

Link:
https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/1796200/saint-george's-church-cemetery

Earliest Grave:
Mary Drake Wood
1646
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/190797679/mary-wood

Link:
https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2267171/sylvester-manor-burial-ground

Earliest Grave:
Cassandra Burnell Southwick
January 1660
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6783049/cassandra-southwick

Link:
https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/64279/townsend-cemetery

Earliest Grave:
Mary Hawkshurst Coles
January 1656
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/103792783/mary-coles

Date: 1656
from the Matinecock Indians in 1656, extended originally to the Nissequogue River in Smithtown
https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=148401

Date: 1657
This site could be considered the birthplace of religious freedom in America. It was here, on December 27, 1657, that a group of brave Flushing freeholders issued a proclamation calling for religious tolerance. One of these men, Michael Milner, owned the house that stood here. At the time, Quakers living in Flushing were persecuted by Dutch governor Peter Stuyvesant, who permitted only the Dutch Reformed religion to be practiced. In response, the freeholders addressed a letter to Stuyvesant. In the letter, known as the Flushing Remonstrance, the residents spoke of their desire to "let every man stand or fall to his own Master." The Remonstrance, the first of its kind in the New World, served as the inspiration for the First Amendment to the Constitution. The Flushing State Armory was built in 1905 to house various units of New York's National Guard.
https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=193418

Date: 1694
The Friends Meeting House was the first house of worship in the village of Flushing. It is New York City’s oldest house of worship in continuous use, and the second oldest in the nation. The house was built in 1694, and provided Flushing’s Quakers with their first permanent place of worship. Until that time, Quakers attended services in the kitchen of John Bowne’s house, a few blocks away. Bowne himself is buried in the graveyard behind the meeting house. The Friends Meeting House has served its original purpose for more than 300 years – interrupted only briefly during the American Revolution, when the British used it as a prison, a hospital, and a stable. The meeting house was built with 40 foot timbers of Oak trees from the area. The two sets of doors were originally used as separate entrances for men and women.
https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=42964