page_title: Fort Amsterdam
hierarchical_section_title: Fort Amsterdam
caption_attribution_description: The original en:Castello Plan. Full size photograph of manuscript map in the Biblioteca Medicea-Laurenziana of Florence, Italy. The Castello plan is the earliest known plan of Amsterdam (so not New Amsterdam, as you can see on the picture), and the only one dating from the Dutch period. The text at the top of the image states: "Image of the city Amsterdam in New Netherland".
context_page_description: Fort Amsterdam was a fort on the southern tip of modern-day Manhattan that was the administrative headquarters for the Dutch and then British rule of New York from 1625 to 1790, when it was torn down after the American Revolution.
context_section_description: Fort Amsterdam (later called Fort James, Fort Willem Hendrick, Fort James (again), Fort William, Fort Anne and Fort George between British and Dutch rule) was a fort on the southern tip of modern-day Manhattan that was the administrative headquarters for the Dutch and then British rule of New York from 1625 to 1790, when it was torn down after the American Revolution.
caption: A map of Nieuw Netherland from 1660. Fort Amsterdam is located on the southern tip.
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