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Fort Albany (N.Y.)

URI(s)

http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n00020653

Codes

n-us-ny

Variants

Fort at Albany (N.Y.)
Fort Frederick (N.Y.)

Identifies LC/NAF RWO

http://id.loc.gov/rwo/agents/n00020653

Exact Matching Concepts from Other Schemes

http://viaf.org/viaf/sourceID/LC%7Cn++00020653#skos:Concept

Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes

Fort Frederick Label from public data source Wikidata
New York (State)--Fort Albany

Earlier Established Forms

Fort Orange (N.Y.)

Sources

found: Encyc. of historic forts, 1988(in 1614, Dutch traders est. Fort Nassau [no publs. in LC database] on Castle (near Rensselaer) Island; Fort Nassau was abandoned in spring of 1618; in 1624, Fort Orange was built in its place; captured by the English and renamed Fort Albany, Fort at Albany, or Fort Frederick; demolition in 1787-1789; eventually became the city of Albany)

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Scheme Membership(s)

Library of Congress Name Authority File

Collection Membership(s)

Change Notes

2000-05-09: new
2019-09-19: revised

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