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This Is the Oldest Town in Every U.S. State

NEW YORK: ALBANY, EST. 1624

The capital of New York is also its oldest city. Originally founded as Fort Orange by Dutch settlers in 1624, the city was officially chartered by the British government as Albany in 1686.

Even though Fort Orange wasn’t founded until the 1620s, Henry Hudson (of Hudson River fame), arrived in the area in 1609 and found it populated with Iroquois Native Americans.

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