Kingston in Ulster County, New York — The American Northeast (Mid-Atlantic)
The Stockade Historic District
Photographed by Bill Coughlin, July 11, 2012
1. The Stockade Historic District Marker
Historic District
has been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
1975
Erected 1975.
Topics. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Colonial Era • Forts and Castles • Settlements & Settlers. A significant historical year for this entry is 1975.
Location. 41° 56.036′ N, 74° 1.178′ W. Marker is in Kingston, New York, in Ulster County. It is at the intersection of Wall Street and John Street, on the right when traveling north on Wall Street. Marker is located at the northeast corner of the intersection. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Kingston NY 12401, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Regionally, this marker is in Upstate New York and in the Hudson Valley. It is also in the American Northeast, in the Mid-Atlantic, and on the Eastern Seaboard. Globally, it is in the North Atlantic Region, North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once New Netherland and also one of the original Thirteen Colonies.
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Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: The Pike Plan (a few steps from this marker); On This Site Stood (within shouting distance of this marker); a different marker also named On This Site Stood (within shouting distance of this marker); The Story of Historic Kingston (within shouting distance of this marker); a different marker also named The Story of Historic Kingston (within shouting distance of this marker); Old Stockade 1658 (within shouting distance of this marker); Sojourner Truth (within shouting distance of this marker); a different marker also named The Story of Historic Kingston (within shouting distance of this marker). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Kingston.
Regarding The Stockade Historic District. National Register Nomination Form Statement of Significance:
Kingston's Stockade Historic District is a significant historical, architectural and archeological area in the development of New York State. The area is important as one of three early New York State colonial settlements (Fort Orange, Albany, and New Amsterdam, New York being the others), as
representative cross section of three hundred years of architectural development.
The Stockade section of the city of Kingston was laid out as a Dutch village in the mid-seventeenth century. The site of the village was carefully chosen in relation to topography on a high delta-like plain which provided good drainage, as well as effective strategic protection from attack.
Also see . . . Kingston Stockade Historic District Nomination Form. (Submitted on July 2, 2025, by William Fischer, Jr. of Reynoldsburg, Ohio.)
Photographed by Bill Coughlin, July 11, 2012
3. The Stockade Historic District Marker
Photographed by Bill Coughlin, July 11, 2012
4. Marker in Historic Kingston
A stockade that was built around the settlement that was located in this area in 1658 to protect the citizens from the local Indians. The stockade was mostly gone when the British burned the town more than a century later.
Credits. This page was last revised on June 22, 2026. It was originally submitted on July 16, 2012, by Bill Coughlin of Woodland Park, New Jersey. This page has been viewed 660 times since then and 35 times this year. Photos: 1. submitted on July 16, 2012, by Bill Coughlin of Woodland Park, New Jersey. 2. submitted on June 22, 2026, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia. 3, 4. submitted on July 16, 2012, by Bill Coughlin of Woodland Park, New Jersey.
