Fort Orange

Fort Orange Archeological Site
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. National Historic Landmark
Location:	Albany, New York
Coordinates:	42°38′41.46″N 73°45′1.05″W / 42.64485°N 73.7502917°W / 42.64485; -73.7502917
Built/Founded:	1624
Governing body:	State
Added to NRHP:	November 4, 1993[1]
Designated NHL:	November 4, 1993[2]
NRHP Reference#:	93001620

New Netherland series
Exploration
Fortifications:
Fort Amsterdam Fort Nassau (North) Fort Orange Fort Nassau (South) Fort Goede Hoop De Wal	Fort Casimir Fort Altena Fort Wilhelmus Fort Beversreede Fort Nya Korsholm De Rondout
Settlements:
Noten Eylandt New Amsterdam Rensselaerswyck New Haarlem Noortwyck Beverwyck Wiltwyck Bergen Pavonia Vriessendael Achter Col Vlissingen Oude Dorpe	Colen Donck Greenwich Heemstede Rustdorp Gravesende Breuckelen New Amersfoort Midwout New Utrecht Boswyck Swaanendael New Amstel Nieuw Dorp
The Patroon System Charter of Freedoms and Exemptions
Directors of New Netherland: Cornelius Jacobsen Mey (1620-25) Willem Verhulst (1625-26) Peter Minuit (1626-32) Sebastiaen Jansen Krol(1632-33) Wouter van Twiller (1633-38) Willem Kieft (1638-47) Peter Stuyvesant (1647-64)
People of New Netherland New Netherlander Twelve Men Eight Men Nine Men
Flushing Remonstrance

Fort Orange (Dutch: Fort Oranje) was the first permanent Dutch settlement in New Netherland and was on the site of the present-day city of Albany. It was a replacement for Fort Nassau, which had been built on nearby Castle Island in the Hudson River and which 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.

Fort Orange was a small wooden structure, erected in 1624 by the Dutch West India Company as a fur factorij (trading post) on the west bank of the Hudson River. 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.

Historical marker commemorating Fort Frederick

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.

Fort Orange was an entrepôt for beaver pelts and other goods.

Fort Orange Archeological Site was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1993.^[2]

Map of Castle Island and Fort Orange in 1629

Other Dutch forts with the name 'Oranje' or Orange in the New World are those on the Caribbean islands St. Eustatius and Bonaire and on the island Itamaraca in the Brazilian state of Pernambuco.

See also

• List of National Historic Landmarks in New York
• List of Registered Historic Places in Albany County, New York
• History of Albany, New York

References

Notes

Sources

External links

• Dutch Colonization as part of the National Park Service Discover Our Shared Heritage Travel Itinerary for Kingston, New York
• Fort Orange at the Colonial Albany Social History Project of the New York State Museum
• Fort Orange at the New York State Military Museum site
• Fort Orange, 1635 (painting) - a visualization by artist Leonard Tantillo, at the University at Albany, SUNY, University Art Museum, site
• Fort Orange Archeological Site:ArtifactsPDF (375 KB) (accompanying documentation to National Historic Landmark Nomination)
• National Register Information System database (search by location)

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