Fort Orange

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This article is part of a series about New Netherland'''
Colonies:

New Amsterdam
New Haarlem
Noortwyck
Beverwyck
Wiltwyck
Vlissingen
Middelburgh
Heemstede
Rustdorp

Gravesende
Breuckelen
New Amersfoort
Midwout
New Utrecht
Boswyck
Swaanendael
New Amstel
Altena
Fortresses:

Fort Amsterdam
Fort Nassau (North)
Fort Orange
Fort Nassau (South)
Fort Goede Hoop

Fort Casimir
Fort Altena
Fort Wilhelmus
Fort Beversreede
Fort Nya Korsholm
The Patroon System
Rensselaerwyck
Colen Donck (Yonkers, New York)
Directors-General of New Netherland:
Cornelius Jacobsen Mey (1620-1625)
Willem Verhulst (1625-26)
Peter Minuit (1626-33)
Wouter van Twiller (1633-38)
Willem Kieft (1638-47)
Peter Stuyvesant (1647-64)
Influential people
Adriaen van der Donck
Kiliaen van Rensselaer
Brant van Slichtenhorst
Cornelis van Tienhoven

Fort Orange (Dutch: Fort Oranje or Fort Oranije) was the first permanent Dutch settlement in New Netherland. It was a replacement for Fort Nassau, which had been built in 1614 on nearby Castle Island in the Hudson River and which served as a trading post until 1617, 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, just south of the where the city of Albany now stands. 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.

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