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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 ...
Once the new fort was completed, the Dutch completed their first treaty with natives of North America. [6] In 1618 a freshet destroyed the new fort, and it was abandoned for good. [5] In 1624, the Dutch built Fort Orange about a mile to the north, at current Albany. Castle Island is now part of the Port of Albany–Rensselaer.
Fort Frederick was a fort in Albany, New York from 1676–1789. Sitting atop State Street Hill (Capitol Hill) it replaced the earlier decaying Fort Orange along the Hudson River . [ 1 ] The fort was named for Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales , son of King George II . [ 1 ]
The history of Albany, New York, began long before the first interaction of Europeans with the native Indian tribes, as they had long inhabited the area.The area was originally inhabited by an Algonquian Indian tribe, the Mohicans, as well as the Iroquois, five nations of whom the easternmost, the Mohawk, had the closest relations with traders and settlers in Albany.
Beverwijck (/ ˈ b ɛ v ər w ɪ k / BEV-ər-wik; Dutch: Beverwijck), often written using the pre-reform orthography Beverwyck, was a fur-trading community north of Fort Orange on the Hudson River within Rensselaerwyck in New Netherland that was renamed and developed as Albany, New York, after the English took control of the colony in 1664.
Fort Albany (Ontario), the historical Hudson's Bay Company trading post near the site of which the First Nation was established; Fort Albany (Arlington, Virginia), a bastioned earthwork built during the American Civil War; Fort Frederick (Albany), an English fort at the current site of Albany, New York, later known as Fort Albany
In 1797, the state capital of New York was moved permanently to Albany. From statehood to this date, the Legislature had frequently moved the state capital between Albany, Kingston, Poughkeepsie, and the city of New York. [17] Albany is the second oldest state capital in the United States. [18]
The Battle of Fort Albany (about 26 June 1709) was an attack by French colonial volunteers and their native allies against the English Hudson's Bay Company outpost of Fort Albany in the southern reaches of Hudson Bay. About 70 Frenchmen and 30 Indians attacked the fort, which was under the command of John Fullartine. Fullartine's men repulsed ...