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Original - The Castello Plan is an early city map of Lower Manhattan (New York City) from 1660, created by Jacques Cortelyou, surveyor of New Amsterdam at that time. Around 1667, cartographer Joan Blaeu bound the plan, together with other hand-crafted New Amsterdam depictions, to an atlas, which he sold to Cosimo III de’ Medici. This transaction most likely happened in Amsterdam, Netherlands, as it has yet to be proven that Blaeu had ever ever even set foot in New Netherland. The plan arrived in Italy, where it was found in Villa di Castello near Florence in 1900 and printed in 1916, thus receiving its name. N.B. This is the redrawn version from 1916 by John Wolcott Adams and Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes.
Reason
High resolution map, with plenty of EV.
Articles in which this image appears
Castello Plan, New Amsterdam, Colonial history of the United States, New York Harbor, Fort Amsterdam
FP category for this image
Maps
Creator
John Wolcott Adams and Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes

Promoted File:Castelloplan.jpg --Makeemlighter (talk) 01:47, 29 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]