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Fort Orange Archeological Site
(U.S. National Historic Landmark)
Location:	Albany, New York
Coordinates:	42°38′41.46″N 73°45′1.05″W / 42.64485, -73.7502917Coordinates: 42°38′41.46″N 73°45′1.05″W / 42.64485, -73.7502917
Built/Founded:	1624
Designated as NHL:	November 04, 1993 1
Added to NRHP:	November 04, 1993 2
NRHP Reference#:	93001620
Governing body:	State

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 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.

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 Archeological Site was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1993.¹

See also

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

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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 (198 KiB) (accompanying documentation to National Historic Landmark Nomination)
• National Register Information System database (search by location)

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