Hendrick Christiaensen builds Fort Nassau on the North River
1/1/1614
c 1614
Painting by L F Tantillo
– The first Dutch settlement in North America
– On Castle Island, in Mahican Indian Country, and site of a previous French Fortification from 1540 (presently Westerlo Island, annexed by Albany in 1926)
– Named for the House of Orange-Nassau of Holland
– Abandoned and rebuilt on more secure ground after flooding in 1617 and then abandoned altogether when the new site floods again in 1618
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Nassau_(North_River)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Island_(New_York)