1. Who was the first non-Native American settler in Manhattan?  →

    Dominican immigrant Juan Rodriguez in 1613. 

    City University scholars say Rodriguez landed on Manhattan island a year before the first European settlers and 12 years before the founding of New Amsterdam. A stretch of upper Broadway is named for Rodriguez.”

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