By New Amsterdam created by surveyor Jacques Cortelyou in 1660.Images is a detail of File:Castelloplan.jpg, obtained from the New York Historical Society - https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=20275, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=134734190
The cache is NOT located at the posted coordinates.
Fort Amsterdam, a fortification on the southern tip of Manhattan Island built in 1625, was located where the Dutch East India Company purchased the island from the Lenape. Technically, it was the founding of New York, although the name was not changed until 1664.
The fort changed hands frequently, with the first surrender to the English Navy by Peter Stuyvesant under pressure from colleagues, in the face of overwhelming odds. The Dutch regained the fort in 1673, but were again defeated in 1674. The English again held the fort until 1689, when colonist Jacob Leisler and others seized it and held it for two years. He and another were eventually convicted of treason and hung. The British held it from 1691-1783, with a brief couple year period when forces under George Washington held it for the Americans. Once the American Revolution was won, it remained in American hands.
In 1788, the government ordered the razing of Fort George (as it was then known). Its materials were used as landfill to add to the shore and expand the Battery.[126] The fort was torn down in 1790, and the Government House, intended as the presidential residence, was built on the site.
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One of the oldest roads in the state, Fort Road was originally built by the federal government after Fort Ridgely was completed in 1853-54. Supplies were shipped from Fort Snelling to Traverse des Sioux, then transported by wagon to Fort Ridgely.
Nicollet County Road 5 runs more than 42 miles from its eastern terminus at its intersection with US Highway 169 in St Peter to the Renville County line. Old Fort Road presumably extended from Traverse des Sioux, although the portion running through the campus of Gustavus Adolphus College has been blocked off. Fort Road as an address runs from the western edge of St Peter to the end of CR-5.
In an ideal world, a paved trail would have been installed when the road was refurbished in the early 2010s. This planned geocache trail will have to suffice, but won’t alleviate my anxiety when biking here.