Fort Orange (New Netherland)

Fort Orange (Dutch: Fort Oranje) was the first permanent Dutch settlement in New Netherland; the present-day city and state capital Albany, New York developed near this site. It was built in 1624 as a replacement for Fort Nassau, which had been built on nearby Castle Island and served as a trading post until 1617 or 1618, when it was abandoned due to frequent flooding. Both forts were named in honor of the Dutch House of Orange-Nassau.^[1] Due to a dispute between the Director-General of New Netherland and the patroonship of Rensselaerswyck regarding jurisdiction over the fort and the surrounding community, the fort and community became an independent municipality, paving the way for the future city of Albany. After the English reconquered the region they soon abandoned Fort Orange (renamed Fort Albany) in favor of a new fort: Fort Frederick, constructed in 1676.

"Fort Orange" redirects here. For other uses, see Fort Orange (disambiguation).

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Adriaen Jorrissen Thienpont

Daniel van Krieckebeck ("Crieckenbeeck ... killed by Mohawks in 1626")

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("appointed commissary of Fort Orange several months ... after ... was killed by Mohawks in 1626"; "Krol returned to the Netherlands in 1629"^[16])

Bastiaen Jansz Krol

Hans Jorissen Houten

Carl van Brugge

Johannes Dyckman

Johannes de Decker

Johannes de la Montagne

History of Albany, New York

List of National Historic Landmarks in New York

National Register of Historic Places listings in Albany, New York

Sebastian Croll

Gehring, Charles, ed. (2000). . The Holland Society of New York. ISBN 0-8156-2821-8.

Fort Orange Records, 1656-1678

at the New York State Military Museum site

Fort Orange

Archived 2006-09-16 at the Wayback Machine (painting) – a visualization by artist Leonard Tantillo, at the University at Albany, SUNY, University Art Museum, site

Fort Orange, 1635

(375 KB) (accompanying documentation to National Historic Landmark Nomination)

Fort Orange Archeological Site:Artifacts

Gibb, James G. (6 December 2012), , Springer Science & Business Media, ISBN 978-1-4613-0345-9, retrieved 13 July 2019

The Archaeology of Wealth: Consumer Behavior in English America

Huey, Paul R. (Summer–Fall 2015), , New York History, 96 (3–4), Fenimore Art Museum: 374–393, doi:10.1353/nyh.2016.0050, S2CID 165191074, retrieved 2019-07-13 – via JSTOR

"The Archaeology of New Netherland: Why It Matters"

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