Beverwyck was a fur-trading community north of Fort Orange on the Hudson River in New Netherlands that was to become Albany, New York when the English took control of the colony in 1664.
During the 1640's, 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 build around Beverwyck and it had become economically and politically successful, with large families residing in the community.
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