Military-industrial complexes in New York's Capital District past and present, including private industrial complexes that produced significant military equipment either standard or only during war-time
Colonial
- Various forts from colonial era- Fort Nassau (North), Fort Orange, Fort Frederick (Albany), Fort Saratoga (Schuylerville), etc etc. Whitehall, New York claim to birthplace of the US Navy.
Known military history in New York's Capital District stretches back to the conflict between the Mohawks and Mohicans. The Mohawks, as the easternmost nation of the Iroquois Confederacy in the Mohawk Valley were pushing east against the Mohicans along the Hudson Valley when Europeans first begun to erect trading posts and military establishments. The French arrived in 1540 and built a fort on Castle Island which was soon abandoned due to the annual freshet. [1] In 1609 Henry Hudson explored the river which would be named for him and ushured in Dutch claims to the land. Fort Nassau was built atop the former French fortifications in 1614 as a combination factorij (warehouse/trading post) and military installation. This fort was abandoned in 1617 for the same reason as the French establishment and was rebuilt on a hilltop called by the natives Tawass-gunshee along the Normans Kill. [2]
In 1618 another freshet destroyed the new Fort Nassau even though it was on higher ground. In 1623 Fort Orange was built 2 miles (3.2 km) further north along the Hudson River. The Dutch garrison at Fort Orange would get involved in the disputes and ongoing wars between the Mohicans and Mohawks, including in 1626 when the commander of the fort and three of his soldiers died in an ambush by the Mohawks in future Lincoln Park, Albany. [1]
Early US and War of 1812
- Watervliet Arsenal and predecessor in Arbor Hill, Albany, New York
Civil War
- Much of the steel for the USS Monitor, first US ironclad, manufactured in Troy and Menands at ....
- Harmony Mills in Cohoes produced large number of Union uniforms during the Civil War
WWII
- General Electric main plant; not sure but assuming probably a lot of just about everything
- American Locomotive Company, in Schenectady produced tanks, and turrets for naval vessel cannons, including those for the USS Missouri site of Japan's surrender in 1945
- US Army Depot, today the Northeastern Industrial Park
- Rainbow Division NY National Guard in North Greenbush
- Matton Shipyard
- Defense National Stockpile Center Scotia, NY (Scotia Naval Depot or Scotia Depot) actually in Glenville. Begun in 1943, closed and in process of being sold off to industrial/warehouse use.
Cold War
- Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory (KAPL) one site in Niskayuna, New York one in Milton sites of experimental nuclear reactors for US submarines and training for those who will be at sea on them
- Malta Test Station experimental rocket engines during Cold War
- ^ a b Reynolds, Cuyler (1906). Albany Chronicles: A History of the City Arranged Chronologically. J.B. Lyon Company. Retrieved 2010-07-31.
- ^ Brodhead, John Romeyn (1853). History of the State of New York: First Period 1609-1664. Harper & Brothers. p. 55.
Military-industrial complexes in New York's Capital District past and present, including private industrial complexes that produced significant military equipment either standard or only during war-time
Colonial
- Various forts from colonial era- Fort Nassau (North), Fort Orange, Fort Frederick (Albany), Fort Saratoga (Schuylerville), etc etc. Whitehall, New York claim to birthplace of the US Navy.
Known military history in New York's Capital District stretches back to the conflict between the Mohawks and Mohicans. The Mohawks, as the easternmost nation of the Iroquois Confederacy in the Mohawk Valley were pushing east against the Mohicans along the Hudson Valley when Europeans first begun to erect trading posts and military establishments. The French arrived in 1540 and built a fort on Castle Island which was soon abandoned due to the annual freshet. [1] In 1609 Henry Hudson explored the river which would be named for him and ushured in Dutch claims to the land. Fort Nassau was built atop the former French fortifications in 1614 as a combination factorij (warehouse/trading post) and military installation. This fort was abandoned in 1617 for the same reason as the French establishment and was rebuilt on a hilltop called by the natives Tawass-gunshee along the Normans Kill. [2]
In 1618 another freshet destroyed the new Fort Nassau even though it was on higher ground. In 1623 Fort Orange was built 2 miles (3.2 km) further north along the Hudson River. The Dutch garrison at Fort Orange would get involved in the disputes and ongoing wars between the Mohicans and Mohawks, including in 1626 when the commander of the fort and three of his soldiers died in an ambush by the Mohawks in future Lincoln Park, Albany. [1]
Early US and War of 1812
- Watervliet Arsenal and predecessor in Arbor Hill, Albany, New York
Civil War
- Much of the steel for the USS Monitor, first US ironclad, manufactured in Troy and Menands at ....
- Harmony Mills in Cohoes produced large number of Union uniforms during the Civil War
WWII
- General Electric main plant; not sure but assuming probably a lot of just about everything
- American Locomotive Company, in Schenectady produced tanks, and turrets for naval vessel cannons, including those for the USS Missouri site of Japan's surrender in 1945
- US Army Depot, today the Northeastern Industrial Park
- Rainbow Division NY National Guard in North Greenbush
- Matton Shipyard
- Defense National Stockpile Center Scotia, NY (Scotia Naval Depot or Scotia Depot) actually in Glenville. Begun in 1943, closed and in process of being sold off to industrial/warehouse use.
Cold War
- Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory (KAPL) one site in Niskayuna, New York one in Milton sites of experimental nuclear reactors for US submarines and training for those who will be at sea on them
- Malta Test Station experimental rocket engines during Cold War
- ^ a b Reynolds, Cuyler (1906). Albany Chronicles: A History of the City Arranged Chronologically. J.B. Lyon Company. Retrieved 2010-07-31.
- ^ Brodhead, John Romeyn (1853). History of the State of New York: First Period 1609-1664. Harper & Brothers. p. 55.