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New York

1626 CE – still standing

Originally the Dutch trading post of New Amsterdam, grew into the Western Hemisphere's dominant commercial port and financial center

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New York (state) on Wikipedia.

Who held this ground

Borders from dated snapshots, up to a century apart; precision varies.

Reconstruction

  1. Before it was built (3000 BCE–1600 CE)
  2. No border recorded here in this snapshot (1650 CE–2026 CE)

Elsewhere in Americas at the time

Records whose own span overlaps this one, found by the same test the canvas draws with. The bar under each card is where it sits inside this one.

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