New York History, Geography, Population, State Facts

The Empire State

Great Seal of the State of New York

Adoptedin 1882.

The Great Seal of New York was adopted in 1882. The following description of the Coat of Arms is provided for those who may be unfamiliar with heraldic terms:
Shield. A blue, unclouded sky with the golden sun and its rays centered behind a range of three mountains, the middle one the highest; below, a ship and sloop under sail, facing each other and about to meet on a river, bordered by a grassy shore fringed with shrubs, all in natural colors.

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Giovanni da Verrazano, an Italian-born navigator sailing for France, discovered New York Bay in 1524. Henry Hudson, an Englishman employed by the Dutch, reached the bay and sailed up the river now bearing his name in 1609, the same year that northern New York was explored and claimed for France by Samuel de Champlain.
In 1624 the first permanent Dutch settlement was established at Fort Orange (now Albany). One year later Peter Minuit purchased Manhattan Island from the Indians for trinkets worth about 60 Dutch guilders and founded the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam (now New York City), which was surrendered to the English in 1664.

Capital City: Albany

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Area: 54475 sq.mi, 27th ? Land 47224 sq. mi., 30th ? Water 7251 sq.mi., 8th ? Coastline 127 mi., 14th ? Shoreline 1,850 mi., 13th ? Great Lakes 3,901 sq.mi., 3rd

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Bird: Eastern Bluebird

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Constitution: 11th State

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Department of: Education ?? Certification | City University of New York System | Columbia University City of New York, founded in 1754. |
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Economy: Agriculture: Dairy products, cattle and other livestock, vegetables, nursery stock, apples.?? Industry: Printing and publishing, scientific instruments, electric equipment, machinery, chemical products, tourism.

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Flower: Rose ? Rosa

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Geographic Center: Madison, 26 miles southwest of Utica

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Highest Point: Mt. Marcy; 5,344 feet, 21st

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Lowest Point: Atlantic coast; sea level, 3rd

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Name: New York named after England's Duke of York.?

Population: Quick facts ? 18,976,457; 3rd, 12/00

Presidential Birthplace: Martin Van Buren, 1837-1841 {8th}? Millard Fillmore, 1850-1853 {13th}? Theodore Roosevelt,? 1901-1909 {26th}? Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1933-1945 {32th}

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Tree: Sugar maple ? Acer saccharum

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