1936 Cocktails and Appetizers by a Connnoisseur

ALBANY, N.Y.

Albany was first visited by the French fur traders, the discovery of the mouth of the Hudson River by made expeditions to the head of naviKation for the purpo with the Indians. About 1540 they began the trading post on Castle Island, which then stood at river near Rensselaer, though it has since become a p land. It was well located to secure the traffic of of the Mohawk near its mouth at Cohoes, for the canoes of the Indians, and Mohawk at Schenectady ran overland to Albany, in the earliest times, was the junction of great roures to the north and west, as it is today. In 1624, the Dutch West rated in 1621, for the special purpose known as the Patroon system. Under this system a i t p region about Albany was settled. Ki.iean Van Rensselaer /-f^eTudir/tTe i?Lra:S'L''gr?ts^=otnTsa^^n^?^^6?o;^^^ it Rensselaerwyck. _ . o*v,ori fVkP district immediately surrounding In 16B2 Peter Stuyvesant Beaver District Village. Fort Orange, "PorP New Netherlands to the English, the ^"an;?^tks"XntV?rXn°;. ^N^£yoarsJater,^wh^ D^utch^again bufi"n1he°fol~g ?ea'r 16^4, it pkssed back to the English and was again called Albany. Albany was chartered as «/"3tl?,tusratd%\a?e'"oT?efu\"e' Indian war, the city was a military gtockade embraced a large made secure by fort and stockade The present section, reaching ''.^'''Lrederick'was built, to the banks of Capitol where about 1676, Fort breaencK ^ the the river, and from the site of the Union Station present junction of South Pearl and . i the greater part of defense, completed in the spring of 1^60 included the of the present business section of Albany. At no t , pontinentai or even assaulted. Here, in 1754, was held the first congress, commissioners of seven colonies meeting ^nnitnl of the of permanent union. In 1797, Albany was made the capitol of the State. The celebration in 1886 of the bi-centennial of the ration brought into prominence many events of historical interest, ' . 1524 . barterinfr fortified ^ of the main- in^^ssSJle ^ carry from the Albany Thus ®j.eat routes of travel 'in America? sent Lt inland where Albany thirty families who built Fort Orange on now stands. Finding the sending of India Company in 1629 o|'^g??nting ^mlnorial rights, ,i,i, system a large part of the

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