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The main town is Hoofddorp. It also comprises Schiphol Airport. There are train stations there and in Nieuw-Vennep.
The municipality of Haarlemmermeer includes the following towns, villages and townships: Aalsmeerderbrug , Abbenes , Badhoevedorp , Beinsdorp , Boesingheliede , Buitenkaag , Burgerveen , Cruquius , De Hoek , Kabel , Leimuiderbrug , Lijnden , Lisserbroek , Nieuwe Meer , Nieuwebrug , Oude Meer , Rijsenhout , Rozenburg , Schiphol/Rijk , Vijfhuizen , Weteringbrug , Zwaanshoek , Zwanenburg .
The Haarlemmermeer is said to have been a relic of a northern arm of the Rhine which passed through the district in the time of the Romans. In 1531 the Haarlemmermeer had an area of 6430 acres, and in its vicinity were three smaller sheets of water: the Leidsche Meer, the Spiering Meer, and the Oude Meer, with a united area of about 7600 acres.
The four lakes were formed into one by successive inundations, whole villages disappearing in the process, and by 1647 the new Haarlemmermeer had an area of about 37,000 acres, which a century later had increased to over 42,000 acres.
As early as 1643 Jan Adriaanszoon Leeghwater proposed to endike and drain the lake. Similar schemes, among which those of Nikolaas Samuel Cruquius in 1742 and of Baron van Lijnden van Hemmen in 1820 are worthy of special mention, were brought forward from time to time. But it was not untill a furious hurricane in November 1836 drove the waters as far as the gates of Amsterdam, and another on Christmas Day sent them in the opposite direction to submerge the streets of LeidenLeiden (in English also, but now rarely, Leyden is a city and municipality in South Holland, The Netherlands. It forms one urban area with Oegstgeest, Leiderdorp and Voorschoten. It is located on the Old Rhine, close to the cities of The Hague and Haarlem, that the mind of the nation was seriously turned to the matter.
On August 1st, 1837Events January 10 DePauw University founded in Greencastle, Indiana January 26 Michigan is admitted as the 26th U. State February 8 Richard Johnson becomes the first Vice President of the United States chosen by the United States Senate February 11 Americ, King William IKing William I of the Netherlands was born as Willem Frederik on 25 August 1772 in The Hague, acceded in 1813 and died 1843 in Berlin, Germany. William I was also the grand duke of Luxembourg and count of Nassau. Biography King William I's parents were th appointed a royal commission of inquiry; the scheme proposed by the commission received the sanction of the Second Chamber in March 1839, and in the following May the work was begun.
A canal was first dug round the lake for the reception of the water ftnd the accommodation of the great traffic which had previously been carried on (ringvaart). This canal was 38 m. in length, 123146 ft. wide, and 8 ft. deep, and the earth which was taken out of it was used to build a dike from 30 to 54 yds. broad containing the lake. The area enclosed by the canal was rather more than 70 sq. m., and the average depth of the lake 13 ft. 11/2 in., and as the water had no natural outfall it was calculated that probably 1000 million tons would have to be raised by mechanical means.
This amount was 200 million tons in excess of that actually discharged. Three steam-engines, de Leeghwater, de Cruquius en de Lynden, were built. Pumping began in 1848, and the lake was dry by July 1July 1 is the 182nd day of the year (183rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 183 days remaining. Events 1097 Battle of Dorylaeum Crusaders under Bohemond of Taranto defeat a Turkish army under Qilich Arslan I. 1690 Battle of the Boyne as reck, 1852Events January 14 President Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte proclaims a new constitution for the French Second Republic. January 17 United Kingdom recognizes independence of the Transvaal Devil's Island penal colony opens February 11 First British public toilet. At the first sale of the highest lands along the banks on the 16th of August 1853, about 28 per acre was paid; but the average price afterwards was less. The whole area of 42,096 acres recovered from the waters brought in 9,400,000 forms, or about 780,000, exactly covering the cost of the enterprise; so that the actual cost to the nation was only the amount of the interest on the capital, or about 368,000.
The soil is of various kinds, loam, clay, sand and peat. Most of it is sufficiently fertile, though in the lower portions there are barren patches where the scanty vegetation is covered with an ochreous deposit. Mineral springs occur containing a very high percentage (3.245 grams per litre) of common salt; and in 1893 a company was formed for working them. Corn, seeds, cattle, butter and cheese are the principal produce.
The roads which traverse the commune are bordered by pleasant-looking farm-houses built after the various styles of Holland, Friesland or Brabant. Hoofddorp, Venneperdorp or Nieuw Vennep, Abbenes and the vicinities of the pumpingstations are the spots where the population has clustered most thickly.
Haarlemmermeer (Dutch Harlemmer Meer), a commune of the provinceProvince is a name for a secondary, or subnational entity of government in most countries. In some countries an alternative term is used, such as state (in Australia and the United States), department (in France), or region (in Italy, where a province is of North Holland, constituted by the law of the July 16July 16 is the 197th day (198th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 168 days remaining. Events 622 Beginning of the Islamic calendar. 1769 First performance of Mozart's opera The Abduction from the Seraglio. 1769 Father Junipero Ser, 1855. Its population increased from 7237 in 1860 to 16,621 in 1900.
The first church was built in 1855; in 1877 there were seven. In 1854 the city of Leiden laid claim to the possession of the new territory, but the courts decided in favor of the nation.
In 1917 a military airport was built near the old fort Schiphol. Nowadays, this airport is one of the major civilian aviation hubs.
In 1926 the Amsterdam municipality took over the management of Schiphol. After the airport of Stockholm, Schiphol was the second airport in Europe to have hardened runways in 1937- 1938.
This article incorporates text from the public domain 1911 Encyclopędia Britannica. 1911 Britannica