freepcrusher
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« on: September 27, 2015, 01:29:15 AM » |
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It's well documented in history that the area was settled by the dutch. Harlem I think is a dutch name and further up the Hudson Valley, there are vestiges of the dutch founders. Martin Van Buren I think was from that area and there was a prominent family in that time called the Van Rensselaers.
Were these dutch people fairly representative of Holland at the time? There aren't really any places in the hudson valley that have the insular conservative atmosphere of Western Michigan or Sioux County, IA.
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