Built as glass factory store
ca. 1852. Under various owners
served Bernhards Bay as a
general store, post office,
town business & dance hall. — — Map (db m308848) HM
Brewerton Rear-Range Lighthouse
History: After being elected Governor of New York in 1817, DeWitt Clinton persuaded the State Legislature to allocate 7 million for the construction of the Erie Canal, which his opponents deridingly called . . . — — Map (db m279837) HM
Containing the
original earthworks
of the fort erected
by the British under
Sir William Johnson
1759
to protect the
western frontier
against the french
and their Indian allies — — Map (db m253240) HM
Ada Bryon Powell Smith was born on November 2nd, 1875, in Mobile Alabama to Morgan Powell and Barbara Messing Ada became a second grade teacher before moving to Central New York to pursue a career in nursing. She graduated in 1907 from the Hospital . . . — — Map (db m279722) HM
Central Square School Centralization On June 8, 1944, 40 schools in the Oneida Lake area combined to form the current Central Square School District. — — Map (db m84168) HM
This tablet is erected to honor those students of Central Square High School and those young men of the Town of Hastings who served in the cause of liberty.
Adams, Charles ·
Adams, Ewing ·
Bellows, Claire ·
Bowen, Oscar ·
Claxton, Ray · . . . — — Map (db m280354) HM WM
Crossroads Timeline
1976 Blockhouse Museum Opened
1927 Fort Designated a National Historic Landmark
1900
1871 Syracuse Northern Railroad reached Brewerton
1846 Plank Road Built From Salina to Central Square
Four Steamboats built: . . . — — Map (db m253242) HM
This Property Has Been
Placed On The
National Register
Of Historic Places
By The United States
Department Of The Interior
Circa 1831 — — Map (db m308850) HM
Here and upon adjacent island now nearly
submerged July 3, 1758 British forces under
Captain Bradstreet repulsed an attack of
French and Indians.
In the year 1916, this historical site was
acquired by Frederick A. Emerick
and presented to . . . — — Map (db m279487) HM
Dates: 1861-1865
Where: Primarily in the Eastern half of the
United States
How Ended: Confederate surrender at Appomattox
Est. Union Dead: 364,511
Est. Union Wounded: 281,881
Est. Confederate Dead: 198,524
Est. Confederate Wounded: . . . — — Map (db m281004) HM WM
For 100 years, from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century, manufacturing was the foundation of Fulton's diverse growth and prosperity. This great prosperity was due to the abundant power created by the Oswego Falls in the river and the swift . . . — — Map (db m280525) HM
In Memory Of The Men And Women Of This Community
Who Gave Their Lives For Democracy
1917 World War I 1918
Homer Russell Smith · Martin L. Goodrowe · Franklin G. Goodrowe · Michael Jacura · A. Lester Kempston · William Newsbaum · . . . — — Map (db m280647) WM
Dates: (US 1950 1954)
Where: North and South Korea
How Ended: War reached a stalemate in June 1951. An
armistice was finally reached on July 27,
1953
Est. Dead: 54,246
Est. Wounded: 103,284 — — Map (db m281183) HM WM
On July 4, 1826, construction began on the first
12-mile section of the Oswego Canal from the falls above Fulton (then called Oswego Falls) to the harbor at Oswego. Originally , the canal had a depth of only four feet. Dredging was done over the . . . — — Map (db m280467) HM
Dates:
(US August 1990 April 1991)
Where:
Iraq, Kuwait
How Ended: After a four-day ground war, an
American-led coalition declared victory, A
cease-fire agreement was signed April 9,
1991
Est. Dead:
383
Est. Wounded:
467 — — Map (db m281191) HM WM
Dates: April 25 August 12, 1898
Where: Mainly in the Spanish possessions of
Cuba and The Philippines
How Ended: Treaty of Paris 1898
Est. Dead: 2446 (90% of American Casualities caused
by disease)
Est. Wounded: 1,662 — — Map (db m281005) HM WM
Dates: 1775 - 1783
Where: Eastern Coast of present day United States
How Ended: Treaty of Paris 1783
Est. Dead: 4,000 to 5,000
Est. Wounded: 6,180 — — Map (db m279631) HM WM
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The Erie Canal, along with the Champlain, Oswego, and Cayuga Seneca canals, is known internationally as the most historically significant and influential canal system in North America. The Erie Canalway National Heritage . . . — — Map (db m280336) HM
Dates:
(US 1964-1975)
Where: Southeast Asia
How Ended:
US withdrew after a ceasefire in 1973, the
war ended in a North Vietnamese victory
in 1975
Est. Dead: 58,198
Est. Wounded: 153,303 — — Map (db m281189) HM WM
Dates: 1812-1815
Where: Eastern United States, Great Lakes and
Lake Champlain
How Ended:
Treaty of Ghent was signed in 1814,
unaware of the treaty, General Jackson
crushed the British at New Orleans on
January 8, 1815.
Est Dead: 2,260 . . . — — Map (db m280997) HM WM
Dates: (US 1941 - 1945)
Where: Europe, North Africa, Asia, Pacific
Islands Including Hawaii, Atlantic and.
Pacific Oceans
How Ended: Japan was the last Axis power to
surrender on V-J Day (August 15, 1945)
Est. Dead: 405,399
Est. Wounded: . . . — — Map (db m281118) HM WM
The Lacona Depot was the hub of village activity for more than a century. The Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg (RWO) Rail Line was completed through East Sandy Creek (Lacona) in the spring of 1851. The depot opened in November of 1872. In 1891 the . . . — — Map (db m259194) HM
Ca. 1807 frame and plank house. Early church, school, and Masonic meetings were held in the house owned & built by Shubal & Lucinda Alfred. — — Map (db m170922) HM
Formerly the Carriage House for Mexico Point Club, where horses and carriages were housed to bring guests from the train station. In the 1920s-30s, when the park switched to motorized vehicles, William Casey, Columbia University professor, asked . . . — — Map (db m280050) HM
Painting completed July 10, 2004 by Artist Kenneth C. Burke, Syracuse, N.Y.
Mural Established By:
Murals In Mexico and The Greater Mexico Chamber of Commerce
Explanation of Historic Mural
Main Theme-Freedom
1. La Guerre . . . — — Map (db m281658) HM
Mexico Point Inn was one of two grand hotels built in the late 1800s, at the mouth of the Little Salmon River. (The other, Twice-Told Tales, was on the East bank of the river.) Guests came from as far as New York City, brought to the Inn in . . . — — Map (db m280325) HM
Local lore says during
Prohibition, 1920-1933, boats
from Canada smuggled liquor
here at night, signaling local
buyers by flashing lights. — — Map (db m279756) HM
Starr Clark was eulogized by Reverend M.D. Kinney as a man who believed in "impartial justice for all men, without regard to condition or color." Clark arrived in Mexico in 1832 and quickly became active in the abolitionist community. He . . . — — Map (db m75704) HM
Site of school since ca.
1820. Incorporated as the
Rensselaer Oswego Academy
in 1826. Name changed to
the Mexico Academy in 1845. — — Map (db m170856) HM
A set of wooden carvings of people representing different time periods at Mexico Point Park
A project developed by Sandra Scott to illustrate the multifaceted history of the Park
Joseph Brant (Theyendanegea)
Joseph Brant was a Mohawk . . . — — Map (db m280528) HM
Built 1914 for new barge canal.
Metal & concrete construction
allowed for storage of buoy
lamp oil and flammable
equipment for lock 0-5. — — Map (db m279538) HM
The Oswego River has playedaettlers and early military all used the river as transportation. The Oswego Canal allowed for development of trade and the exploring and settling of our West. The Erie Canal opened in 1825, connecting Albany and . . . — — Map (db m311313) HM
1891-1996. Heralded as
world's most famous model
in early 20th century. Posed
for many sculptures and
civic monuments. Buried here. — — Map (db m133164) HM
Philanthropists Sidney and
Elizabeth Shepard & son
C. Sidney supported community.
Preferred to remain anonymous.
Residence here ca. 1870-1934. — — Map (db m272632) HM
Revolutionary War (1775-1783)
Over 5,000 African Americans served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. About half of the Rhode Island regiment consisted of free blacks and escaped slaves. In February 1783, . . . — — Map (db m86080) HM
The railroad overtook the river and canal as the major mode of transport to and from the interior. The river banks and waterfront were dominated by tracks, bridges, and coal trestles. Coal, grain, lumber, and people now moved through the city by . . . — — Map (db m86356) HM
Revolutionary War veteran
arrived here with his family
October 1797. Founded first
settlement in Oswego Town,
known as Union Village. — — Map (db m132661) HM
Near this site, on May 5-7, 1814, British naval forces entered Oswego Harbor and conducted an amphibious assault on Fort Ontario and the Village of Oswego. Lieutenant Colonel George Mitchell, commanding 290 men of the 3rd U.S. Artillery Regiment and . . . — — Map (db m86211) HM
Site of British Attacks on Fort Ontario, May 5-7, 1814 After enduring a heavy bombardment by a British fleet under the command of Sir James Yeo, and repelling an amphibious assault on May 5, 1814, 290 men of the 3rd U.S. Artillery and 200 . . . — — Map (db m75816) HM
Dr, Mary Walker Born in Oswego Town, Walker was an assistant surgeon in the Civil War. She was the first woman honored with a Medal of Honor. 1832-1919. — — Map (db m109202) HM WM
The river access to the lake made Oswego a natural hub for commerce, as well as a place to transfer goods, travelers, and armies from river and land carriers to lake vessels. Many of the vessels were built here. Through the centuries the type of . . . — — Map (db m86370) HM
Earthworks 1759-1902
All four versions of Fort Ontario built from 1755 to 1839 were surrounded by a ditch (dry moat) and earthworks constructed of a dirt and timber facing material called revetment designed to provide a protective barrier . . . — — Map (db m281168) HM
America’s pioneer in education method.
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Erected by the children of the public schools of the State of New York 1888
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Edward Austin Sheldon
A leader in education and an advocate of free public . . . — — Map (db m279596) HM
Fort George
Was here built as an outwork of Fort
Oswego in October 1755 by Lieutenant Colonel Mercer
of the first American regiment of English troops.
It was garrisoned by 150 New York Colonial Militia
under Colonel . . . — — Map (db m75348) HM
Fort Ontario
Built by English under Governor Shirley 1755
Captured & destroyed by French
under Marquis of Montcalm 1756
Rebuilt by English under Lord Amherst 1759
Destroyed by Americans 1778 - Rebuilt by English 1782 . . . — — Map (db m75343) HM
Igniting the Powder Keg, 1765 - 1775
By 1770, the financially strapped British government had abandoned Fort Ontario and most other Great Lakes frontier army posts. Unlike after earlier colonial wars, the regular troops did not all return to . . . — — Map (db m281199) HM
General Hospital 5
Due to its proximity to army recruit training camps the Surgeon General considered Fort Ontario a desirable place for hospital purposes. On 3
July 1917 the Secretary of War authorized the use of "such barracks as may be . . . — — Map (db m280977) HM
The British fort was the base for Loyalist- Native American raids throughout New York and the starting point of General St. Leger’s aborted 1777 invasion. Revolutionary War Heritage Trail — — Map (db m75815) HM
This tablet
marks the site of Fort
Oswego sometimes called Fort
Burnet, Chouaguen, or Pepperrell.
Built in 1727 by Governor Burnet,
strengthened and enlarged in 1755
by General Shirley - garrisoned by 1700
royal and colonial troops, . . . — — Map (db m75339) HM
This is the site of the former Fort Oswego, a "stone house of strength," built by the British in 1727 to protect their fur-trading interests on the Great Lakes. Strengthened by the addition of outer walls and blockhouses around 1742, Fort Oswego was . . . — — Map (db m75342) HM
This hearth is dedicated to the women and children of all races who lived and died on the colonial frontier. It was built by their grateful descendants in the bicentennial year of Our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and Seventy Six. Where they . . . — — Map (db m75982) HM
From 1944 – 1946 Fort Ontario served as a haven for 982 survivors of the European holocaust. Erected October 25, 1981 by Syracuse Pioneer Women/NA’AMAT and the Jewish community of central New York — — Map (db m75980) HM
The LT-5 is an ocean going harbor tug, built in 1943 at the Jakobsen Shipyard. Oyster Bay, New York, specifically to serve in the European Invasion. Serving under the United States Army Transportation Corps, she was one of the many support vessels . . . — — Map (db m118551) HM WM
Food and Shelter
The mouth of the river and harbor provide waterfowl and waterbirds an environment sheltered from the winter gales of Lake Ontario. The breakwalls serve as resting places for the gulls where any approaching predator . . . — — Map (db m75427) HM
Oswego City Library has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971 by the United States Department of the Interior — — Map (db m309057) HM
In Honor Of The
Soldiers And Sailors
Of The County Of
Oswego
Who Nobly Defended
The Union
1861- 1885
West Side:
24th N.Y. Infantry
May 17 1861- May 29,1863
Col. Timothy Sullivan
John D. O’Brian, Oswego, Capt. Co. A . . . — — Map (db m282566) HM WM
The
Oswego County Courthouse
Has been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
1859 — — Map (db m306503) HM
The Oswego Harbor has attracted settlement since the first exploreres found the river to be a good access to interior resources. Since then activities have increased, but their focus has changed.
Recent Times<
Recreational activities are . . . — — Map (db m118550) HM
Over the years, Oswego has been the site of four lighthouses. The first lighthouse was built in 1821 on the grounds of Fort Ontario and discontinued in 1838. After the completion of the West Harbor Pier in 1836 (running west to east from Third . . . — — Map (db m75350) HM
British Toehold on Lake Ontario
During the French and Indian War, the Oswego River was the only British controlled waterway into the Great Lakes. French commander-in-chief, the Marquis de Montcalm, recognizing its strategic . . . — — Map (db m75356) HM
The thriving port city of Oswego was founded by and attracted many ambitious and heroic people. Leaders of industry and social causes lived here and left their mark on the city. You can still visit some of their works by touring the city streets . . . — — Map (db m86292) HM
Camp, Row, Camp
Campaigns in the North American wilderness required extensive planning and massive manpower to reach the objective safely and successfully. For Prideaux's army, the distance from Fort Stanwix to Fort Niagara . . . — — Map (db m75670) HM
To perpetuate the memory of the men and women who gave their lives, their services, their fortunes, to achieve and maintain American independence. by Fort Oswego Chapter NSDAR Dedicated August 17, 1976 — — Map (db m75893) HM
Max Richardson lived in an era called the Victorian Period (when England's Queen Victoria ruled over the British Empire), when wealthy people were traveling to exotic places, collecting art and cultural artifacts, reading, and socializing. . . . — — Map (db m86574) HM
Oswego offered close proximity to raw materials from the interior, a water route to markets of the world, and water power. These assets caused the river banks to become lined with factories, warehouses, and storage buildings. Materials were . . . — — Map (db m86315) HM
Rural Cemetery
Begun ca. 1820
Medal of Honor Recipients
Dr. Mary Walker, 1st Female
Recipient, and James H. Lee
Interred at this Site — — Map (db m86027) HM
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