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Dutch West India Company

“One nation is a copy of the other,” said John Adams on his first visit to the Netherlands; two centuries later an American visitor to Holland can still trace the connection

We are well weaned from the delicate milk of our mother country, and inured to the difficulties of a strange and hard land,” wrote John Robinson and William Brewster in 1617.

Over 350 years a mighty pageant of history has moved through the myth-haunted valley of the “Great River of the Mountains”

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