Old Fort Johnson
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Old Fort Johnson was a two-story stone house enclosed in fortifications built by Sir William Johnson about 1749 in the town of Amsterdam, Montgomery County, New York. The fort served as Johnson's home, business office and trading center until 1763 when he moved to Johnson Hall in what is now Johnstown, New York [1]. Sir William's son Sir John Johnson owned the house from 1763 until 1776, when it was confiscated by the local Committee of Public Safety.
While the fortifications no longer exist, the house remains and is owned and operated as a museum by the Montgomery County Historical Society. Here the visitor can steep himself in the social, cultural, military and industrial past of the Mohawk Valley. And though the Fort has been the setting for many historical novels, no fiction could be as interesting as the real story of Fort Johnson, presented and preserved here for all to enjoy. Source: Mary Antoine de Julio’s article in Mohawk Valley USA, Summer 1981
[edit] References
- ^ "Fort Johnson" by Timothy J. Shannon in Peter Eisenstadt (editor) The Encyclopedia of New York State (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, c.2005), page 589.
- Mendel, Mesick, Cohen, Architects, Fort Johnson Historical Structure Report (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of the Interior, 1978)
