National Historic Landmark -Fort Orange Archeological Site

These are the remains of Fort Orange, a small, half-acre, fortified, wooden palisades-walled, earthwork military post occupied by Dutch garrisons 1624-1664 and 1673-1674, and by British troops from 1674-1676.

Dutch West India Company employees built Fort Orange on a narrow, flat alluvial plain along the western shore of the Hudson River, then as now the largest navigable waterway penetrating the mountain barrier separating the Atlantic Coast from the continent's interior.

Courtesy National Park Service National Historical Landmarks