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Fort Orange

American  

noun

  1. a former Dutch fort on the site of Albany, N.Y.


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As European population grew, newcomers began building farms along the Hudson to Fort Orange, and beyond there to the Mohawk River outpost of Schenectady.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

The Ohio governor is scheduled to be at the Fort Orange Club on Washington Avenue at noon for a private event.

From Washington Times • Apr. 11, 2016

At Our Deck Down Under, tucked under an A1A bridge up the coast in Fort Orange, you can wait over an hour in line to order at the counter on a weekend.

From New York Times • Apr. 19, 2011

They look back over 300 years of unbroken tradition to Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, first of the patroons to sail across the ocean and up the Hudson to the trading post of Fort Orange.

From Time Magazine Archive

Her advent was followed by the appearance of a steadily increasing group of native citizens, and Dutch cradles multiplied in the cabins of the various settlements from Fort Orange to New Amsterdam.

From Dutch and English on the Hudson A Chronicle of Colonial New York by Goodwin, Maud Wilder

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