Appleton's illustrated hand-book of American cities; . Albany from Greenbusb. directly below the site of the present city, in 1614. Fort Orange was built wherethe city now stands, in 1623, and, next to Jamestown in Virginia, was the earliestEuropean settlement in the original 13 States. The town was known as BeaverWyck, and as Williamstadt, before it received its present name in honor of theDuke of York and Albany (afterward James IL), when it fell into the possession ofthe British in 1664. It was chartered in 1686, and made the State capital in 1798,since which time the population has increas
Appleton's illustrated hand-book of American cities; . Albany from Greenbusb. directly below the site of the present city, in 1614. Fort Orange was built wherethe city now stands, in 1623, and, next to Jamestown in Virginia, was the earliestEuropean settlement in the original 13 States. The town was known as BeaverWyck, and as Williamstadt, before it received its present name in honor of theDuke of York and Albany (afterward James IL), when it fell into the possession ofthe British in 1664. It was chartered in 1686, and made the State capital in 1798,since which time the population has increased from 5,349 (in 1800) to above 80,000in 1875. Albany has a large commerce, from its position at the head of navigationon the. river, as the entrepot of the great Erie Canal from the W., and the Cham-plain Canal from the N., and as the centre to which several important railroads con-verge. The boats of the canal are received in a great basin constructed in the5 54 HAND-BOOK OF AMERICAN CITIES. river, with the help of a pier 80 ft. wide and 4,300 ft.
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