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While the Dutch founded the nation’s largest city, the visible Dutch landscape in New York today is highly muted. Although the role of the Dutch colonization—which included individuals from what is today’s Belgium—in southern New York State is described, persons of Dutch ancestry account for little of the population of that region today, even though Dutch colonial style barns and churches remain. Much of this chapter is devoted to an examination of the ethnic landscapes around 19th Century settlements of Dutch, Belgians, and Luxembourgers within rural Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota, and Iowa, where persons of these ancestries comprise much larger proportions of the population.
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Cross, J.A. (2017). Dutch, Belgian, and Luxemburger Landscapes: Ethnicity from the Low Countries. In: Ethnic Landscapes of America. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54009-2_10
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