Westerlo Island – Freeport History Timeline ../../../index.html A research project focused on the combination of different open source technologies as a way to preserve and present historical data Sat, 15 Mar 2014 15:51:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.8 Hendrick Christiaensen builds Fort Nassau on the North River ../../../fort-nassau-a-dutch-trading-post-is-built-near-albany-in-mahican-indian-country/ ../../../fort-nassau-a-dutch-trading-post-is-built-near-albany-in-mahican-indian-country/#respond Sun, 09 Feb 2014 09:15:40 +0000 http://freeporthistory.com/?p=2203 c 1614

Trading House web(1)-1

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)

https://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany/na/castle.html

https://www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/history-and-heritage/digital-exhibitions/a-tour-of-new-netherland/albany/fort-nassau/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Orange-Nassau

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