House of Hope (fort)
1633 Dutch trading house in Connecticut / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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41.76°N 72.67°W / 41.76; -72.67
House of Hope (Dutch: Huys de Hoop), also known as Fort Good Hope (Dutch: Fort de Goede Hoop), was a redoubt and factory in the seventeenth-century Dutch colony of New Netherland. The trading post was located at modern-day Hartford, Connecticut at Park River), a tributary river of the Fresh River (Connecticut River). The location of this confluence of rivers is at contemporary Sheldon Street. The fort is recalled today with a nearby avenue called Huyshope,[1] once the center of economic activity in the city.[2]