Christopher Columbus. and with other great explorers: Amerigo Vespucci. who gave the Americas their name. and Giovanni da Verrazano. who entered New York Bay almost a century before Henry Hudson. and whose name is preserved in the bridge now being built from Brooklyn to Staten Island. It begins. too. with the lessknown anems--euch as that of Peter Allfirti. the Venetian who settled in the old colony on New York Bay in 15835almost 90 years before the founding of the Dutch Province of the New Netherlands that ultimately became New York. He was our first Italian Immigrant. And then there was Col. Francis Vigo. who served on General Washingtons staff in the Revolution. and later became the explorer of the Indiana Territory.
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