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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 ...
Fort Orange was surrendered to the English 16 days after New Amsterdam (the city of New York). [19] Surrender terms at New Amsterdam were quite generous. Fort Orange was renamed Fort Albany, and the village of Beverswyck was renamed Albany, in honor of the Duke of York and Albany, [20] who later became King James II of England and James VII of ...
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.
Albany: State University of New York Press; 2007. ISBN 978-0-7914-7294-1. Hackett, David G. The Rude Hand of Innovation: Religion and Social Order in Albany, New York, 1652-1836 (Oxford University Press, 1991) Howell, George Rogers. Bi-centennial History of Albany: History of the County of Albany, N.Y. from 1609 to 1886 (Volume I). Jonathan Tenney.
The Knickerbocker News' circulation peaked at about 71,000 in 1972-73, which made it the largest newspaper at that time in New York's Capital Region, but had fallen to about 28,000 by the late 1980s. That precipitous decline was a fate that overtook most afternoon newspapers in the United States during the same period as major changes in the ...
The Rapeljes arrived at a site along the Hudson River where they helped build one of the first Dutch settlements, Fort Orange, where Sarah Rapelje was born on June 9, 1625, along the Waaleboght. [3] Fort Orange would eventually become the fur-trading town of Beverwijck, which itself would later become Albany, New York.
First Trading Center Established in New York State. 15: From The Ground: Port Rd., Nr. Administration Bldg. Albany: Glenn Curtiss Began the First Long Distance Airplane Flight Albany to New York May 29, 1910. 16: General John Burgoyne: Plaza, Broadway at Foot of State St. Albany: Over This Road Entered Albany With His Staff After the Battle of ...
History of New Paltz, New York and Its Old Families (from 1678 to 1820) Including the Huguenot Pioneers and Others Who Settled in New Paltz Previous to the Revolution. Albany, NY: Fort Orange Press. OCLC 3653171.