Daily Archives: February 28, 2014


How Big was the Dyckman Farm?

This is a hard question to answer because the Dyckman family started acquiring land in Northern Manhattan in the 1660s and continued to increase their holdings until the mid-19th-century.  The Dyckmans were continually buying and selling property so,  the boundaries changed depending on the year. The mythology that we commonly […]

Auctions of the Property of Isaac Dyckman, 1868-1871