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Fort Hoop
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| New Netherland series | |
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| Directors-General of New Netherland: Cornelius Jacobsen Mey (1620-1625) |
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| Influential people Adriaen van der Donck |
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Fort Hoop (Dutch: Fort Goede Hoop; Algic: Suckiaug) was a settlement by the New Netherlands colony in the land that would eventually become Connecticut.
In 1633, the Geoctroyeerde Westindische Compagnie (GWC) in English, the Chartered West India Company commonly known as the Dutch West India Company 1621-1793 of the United Netherlands Dutch Republic built a fortified trading house of the Roman Castra design, at the south bank of the Little River, a tributary river of the Versche or Fresh River. This settlement eventually developed into Hartford, Connecticut on the confluence of the Connecticut River and the Park River.
The Roman fort design was not well planned, as coordinated out of Fort Orange and Fort Amsterdam, to be the Northeast fortification and trading center of the GWC. Peter Minuit, Governor of the New Netherlands, did not follow the line of building fortifications as in Roman design, possibly out of haste & lack of resources, poor leadership, or a combination of both.
By 1633 Jacob van Curler had added a block house and palisade to the post while New Amsterdam sent a small garrison and a pair of cannons. The fort was abandoned by 1654.
- New Netherland Virtual Tour: Fort Huys de Goede Hoop or Fort Hoop: Dutch; House of Good Hope or House of Hope: English
- The Onrust Project
- The Chartered West India Company (GWC)
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