New Amsterdam, Guyana |This article does not cite any references
or sources. (August 2012)| New Amsterdam (Dutch: Nieuw
Amsterdam), located in the East Berbice-Corentyne Region, 62
miles from the capital, Georgetown, is one of the largest towns
in Guyana. It is located four miles upriver from the Atlantic
Ocean mouth of the Berbice River, on its eastern bank,
immediately south of the Canje River. New Amsterdam's population
is approximately 33,000. New Amsterdam has its origins in a
village which grew up alongside Fort Nassau in the 1730s and
1740s. The first Nieuw Amsterdam, as it was called then, was
situated about 56 miles up the Berbice River on the right bank.
Before the 1763 slave uprising it comprised a Court of Policy
building, a warehouse, an inn, two smithies, a bakery, a
Lutheran church and a number of houses, among other buildings.
Built in 1740 by the Dutch New Amsterdam was first named Fort
Sint Andries. It was made seat of the Dutch colonial government
in 1790. In 1803 it was taken over by the B