Fort Johnson, NY

Fort Johnson is a hamlet and former village in Montgomery County, New York, United States. The 2020 census counted 401 residents. Fort Johnson is located on the north side of the Mohawk River in Amsterdam. Around 1710, Palatine Germans began trying to settle here. The through line in Fort Johnson is the way its history and present-day settings remain visible on the same map. Fort Johnson makes the most sense through those concrete details, with its history still visible in the settings people use today. Most were working in an English camp along the Hudson to pay back their passage by ship from London. Fort Johnson is bordered to the east by Amsterdam and to the south by the Mohawk River, across which is Florida.