Everything about Fort Orange totally explained
Fort Orange (
Dutch:
Fort Oranje ) was the first permanent
Dutch settlement in
New Netherland. It was a replacement for
Fort Nassau, which had been built in
1609 on a nearby Castle Island in the Hudson River and which served as a trading post until
1617, when it was abandoned due to frequent flooding. Both forts were named in honor of the Dutch House of
Orange-Nassau.
Fort Orange was a small wooden structure, erected in
1624 by the
Dutch West India Company as a fur
trading post on the west bank of the
Hudson River, just south of where the city of
Albany now stands. It became the company's official outpost in the upper
Hudson Valley, similar to the company's many other headquarters throughout their worldwide trading empire.
In
1664, when the English took control of New Netherland, Fort Orange was renamed
Fort Albany. When the stockade was rebuilt on State Street hill in
1676, it was renamed
Fort Frederick.
The site of the fort was declared a
National Historic Landmark in 1993.
Further Information
Get more info on 'Fort Orange'.
|
External Link Exchanges
Do you know how hard it is to get a link from a large encyclopaedia? Well we're different and will prove it. To get a link from us just add the following HTML to your site on a relevant page:
<a href="http://fort_orange.totallyexplained.com">Fort Orange Totally Explained</a>
Then simply click through this link from your web page. Our crawlers will verify your link, extract the title of your web page and instantly add a link back to it. If you like you can remove the words Totally Explained and embed the link in article text.
As long as your link remains in place, we'll keep our link to you right here. Please play fair - our crawlers are watching. Your site must be closely related to this one's topic. Any kind of spamming, dubious practises or removing the link will result in your link from us being dropped and, potentially, your whole site being banned. |
