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House of Hope (Dutch: Huys de Hoop), also known as Fort Good Hope (Dutch: Fort de Goede Hoop), was a redoubt and factory in the seventeenth-century Dutch colony of New Netherland. The trading post was located at modern-day Hartford, Connecticut at Park River), a tributary river of the Fresh River (Connecticut River). The location of this ...
The Fort is sometimes confused with the Redoubt Duijnhoop, which was built some distance away, at the mouth of the Salt River, in 1654. [ citation needed ] In 1732 the first Masonic lodge in South Africa was erected, Lodge De Goede Hoop, which was a branch of the Premier Grand Lodge of England .
Fort de Goede Hoop or Fort Good Hope was a fort on the Dutch Gold Coast, established in 1667 near Senya Beraku. The Dutch had already had a lodge in Senya Beraku in the 1660s, but that was abandoned when the British built their fort at nearby Winneba. In 1704, the Dutch asked the Queen of Agona for permission to build a fort at Senya Beraku.
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The original map relates to 1850 more or less, and may be John Arrowsmith's 1851 Eastern Frontier of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope (and part of Kafirland), From Algoa Bay to the Great Kei River. Arrowsmith's lithograph was redrawn and compiled chiefly from M.S. Surveys & Sketches, communicated by Lt. Col. Mitchell late Survr. Genl. of the ...
The Castle of Good Hope (Dutch: Kasteel de Goede Hoop; Afrikaans: Kasteel die Goeie Hoop) [1] is a 17th century bastion fort in Cape Town, South Africa. Originally located on the coastline of Table Bay , following land reclamation the fort is now located inland.
House of Hope can refer to: House of Hope, by Toni Childs (1991), or its title track; House of Hope (fort) This page was last edited on 5 January ...
The Cape of Good Hope (Afrikaans: Kaap die Goeie Hoop [ˌkɑːp di ˌχujə ˈɦuəp]) [a] is a rocky headland on the Atlantic coast of the Cape Peninsula in South Africa. A common misconception is that the Cape of Good Hope is the southern tip of Africa, based on the misbelief that the Cape was the dividing point between the Atlantic and ...