<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n10 years after Van der Donck’s murder and the destruction of the settlement, English colonists arrived here, as England conquered New Netherland. To find information about this settlement and its scale, it was necessary to research land documents, old maps and censuses. Later, a second settlement appeared on the territory of the park. This made it even more difficult to identify the owners of the seventeenth-century buildings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So, the Bronx was inhabited long before the English came here. Indeed, the Indians were the first to live here. But the Dutch colonized the land later. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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