New Sweden - Forts

Forts

• Fort Christina (1638) - located at the confluence of the Brandywine Creek and the Christina River in Wilmington, Delaware.
• Fort Mecoponacka (1641) - located in Chester as a defense for the settlement then known as Finlandia, near Upland, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
• Fort Nya Elfsborg (1643) - located on the New Jersey side of the Delaware River, between present day Salem and Alloway Creek near Bridgeport, New Jersey.
• Fort Nya Gothenborg (1643) - located on Tinicum Island near the site of The Printzhof in Essington, Pennsylvania.
• Fort Nya Vasa (1646) - located at Kingsessing, on the eastern side of Cobbs Creek near Cobbs Creek Parkway and Greenway Avenue in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• Fort Nya Korsholm (1647) - located at the mouth of the Schuylkill River, probably on Province Island, near the western approach of the Penrose Avenue Bridge in Philadelphia.
• Fort Casimir (1654) - also known as Fort Trinity (in Swedish, Trefaldigheten), located at the end of Chestnut Street near Harmony & 2nd streets in New Castle, Delaware.