Stuyvesant Farm
FARM IN NEW AMSTERDAM
Great Bowery; Bowery No. 1; Stuyvesant Pear Tree; Stuyvesant's Farm
Stuyvesant Farm, also known as the Great Bowery, was the estate of Peter Stuyvesant, the last Dutch director-general of the colony of New Netherland, as well as his predecessors and later his familial descendants. The land was at first designated Bowery No.