Beverwyck

Beverwyck

Beverwyck was a fur-trading community north of Fort Orange on the Hudson River in New Netherland that was to become Albany, New York when the English took control of the colony in 1664.

During the 1640s, the name "Beverwyck" began to be used informally for the settlement of fur traders north of the fort. In 1652, the Dutch West India Company took control of that area and made the name official. By 1660, a palisade was built around Beverwyck and it had become economically and politically successful, with large families residing in the community.

[http://www.mta.biz/images/news/beverwyck_saa01.pdf Another Beverwyck] is situated in New Jersey and was a large estate around the time of the US Civil War. There is, of course, also the "original" Beverwyck in the Netherlands, situated on the North Sea coast.

Further reading

*cite book |title=Beverwijck: A Dutch Village on the American Frontier, 1652-1664 |last=Venema |first=Janny |authorlink= |coauthors= |year=2003 |publisher=Verloren |location=Hilversum |isbn=0791460797 |pages=

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