Otisco Southern
aka Octagon Schoolhouse
Cemetery ca 1812. Graves of
pioneers & soldiers of the
Revolution, War of 1812,
Civil War & World War II — — Map (db m154517) HM
Built 1820 by N. Sterling.
Frederick Freeman first
pastor. Abandoned in 1834.
Roman Catholic Church,
1866-92. Now LeMoyme Hall. — — Map (db m143914) HM
Built ca. 1808 in Pompey by
John Jr. and Alson Nearing,
sons of John Nearing Sr.,
Revolutionary War soldier.
Farm remains in family 2013. — — Map (db m154513) HM
Part of David Green 1796
estate. 1835 owners
Robert Fleming & Silas
Holbrook. William G.
Pomeroy Research Center &
Museum 2003. — — Map (db m143883) HM
Grindstone of the Onondaga
Indians. Used to sharpen
arrows and spears at Indian
Hill until 1666. Moved to
LeMoyne Park, Pompey, 1905. — — Map (db m143911) HM
The 17th century abundance of salmon trout, whitefish, and eel attracted the Native Americans to the shores of "Gannetaha" where they would construct temporary fishing villages.
Throughout the late 1800's, Onondaga Lake whitefish was a delicacy . . . — — Map (db m226559) HM
Jesuit Mission The salt springs at Onondaga Lake were visited by Father LeMoyne, August 16, 1654. The following year Fathers Chaumonot and Dablon made a settlement here and on 1656 founded the mission of Ste. Marie of Ganentaa which was . . . — — Map (db m91167) HM
Popularized by salt industry workers, potatoes boiled in brine & paired with melted butter served in local taverns and eateries as early as 1883. — — Map (db m226005) HM
Salt Block #56, built in 1856 on this site by Stephen Van Alstine, was one of 316 salt blocks that lined the Erie and Oswego Canals near Onondaga Lake during the Civil War. After great success in the late 1800's, the structure was abandoned and . . . — — Map (db m226560) HM
Dedicated
To Those Men And Women
Of This Community
Who Served In
World War II
Let None Forget These
Who Made The
Supreme Sacrifice
Robert J. Bourdeau •
Donald J. Brewster •
Francis Bruzdzinski •
Elmer Cappell • . . . — — Map (db m153925) HM
Lake View Cemetery
has been placed on the
National Register of
Historical Places in 2017
by the United States
Department of the Interior — — Map (db m143216) HM
Here
Bishop Frederick Cammerhoff
and
David Zeisberger
built “The Pilgrim’s Hut
at St. John’s Beach” on
St. John Baptist’s Day, 1750.
Here also
Col. Gansevoort’s hundred men,
bearing the American flag,
rested September . . . — — Map (db m143010) HM
Mottville Cemetery has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021 by the United States Department of the Interior — — Map (db m244807) HM
James Canning Fuller home
Noted abolitionist 1834-1861
He gave to the cause of
freedom for slaves
Historic Marker
Skaneateles 1999 — — Map (db m143154) HM
Andrews, Charles A. • Baker, Felix, W. • Bradley, George B. • Burns, James A. • Cauley, Thomas • Churchill, E.M. • Coleman, Thomas • Creese, George • Dodge, Harry L. • Doherty, Charles P. • Dougherty, Daniel • Dove, William J. • Fitzgerald, James F. . . . — — Map (db m227185) WM
Bishop Frederic Cammerhoff and David Zeisberger, Moravian missionaries, built the first Skaneateles shelter on this site June 1750
Historic Marker
Skaneateles 1999 — — Map (db m108498) HM
Skaneateles Men Who Served
War of 1812
Adams, John • Allen, Miles • Benedict, Peter • Bowen, Elijah Jr. • Brackett, Ezra • Burdick, David C. • Clark, Chester • Clark, Foster • Cornell, Daniel B. • Cuddeback, Jacob • Earll, Nehemiah H. • . . . — — Map (db m227183) WM
In Honor of the Men and Women Who Served from the Town of Skaneateles in Southwest Asia and the War on Terrorism
Alexander, Sarah E. • Angelillo, Alex H. • Angyal, Joseph W. • Armatas, Alexander P. • Bennett, Lloyd E. • Blessing, William . . . — — Map (db m227324) WM
Skaneateles resident
awarded Medal of Honor.
Badly wounded in Civil War.
In 1864 retrieved regiment
flag from behind enemy line — — Map (db m133055) HM
Sons of the Town of Skaneateles
who answered their countrys call in the World War
Allen, J. Eugene • Austin, Henry • Avery, Frank H. • Barber, Clark • Barber, Harold • Baumgartner, Maurice • Bentley, George S. • Bissell, William • Bobbett, . . . — — Map (db m227179) WM
Like the Solvay Process Company, the story of Crucible Industries began with two brothers across the Atlantic Ocean. The Sanderson Brothers Steel Company had produced steel in England since 1776. Looking to expand into the American market, they . . . — — Map (db m176180) HM
Turk's Island & Western
Coarse Salt companies est.
here by Erie Canal ca. 1850.
Major industry in Solvay
includes Solvay Process Co. — — Map (db m175963) HM
The Erie Canal made New York “The Empire State.” It transformed lives by speeding up travel, opening markets, lowering shipping costs, growing towns, and moving goods and information, connecting the young American
nation like never before. It was . . . — — Map (db m176065) HM
The Great New York State Fair was first held in Syracuse in 1841, in and around the old courthouse on North Salina Street, near Division Street. The Fair was the creation of the New York State Agricultural Society, a group of private individuals . . . — — Map (db m176079) HM
The Village of Solvay bears the name of two brothers Enrst and Alfred Solvay, Belgian chemists who perfected the synthetic process
for manufacturing soda ash, an essential ingredient for a host of other products in America's industrial economy. . . . — — Map (db m176184) HM
First known as South Hollow or Toad Hollow. By 1830 this intersection held a hotel, store, post office, school & community watering trough. — — Map (db m224999) HM
Site of first religious society
of Borodino Church c. 1833
Spafford Town Hall 1870
Borodino Grange #1272 1912-1997
Spafford Area Historical Society 1997 — — Map (db m108495) HM
In grateful tribute
to the men and women
of Spafford
who have served
to preserve our freedoms
Dedicated 2003
————————————
Dedicated to the Men and Women of the . . . — — Map (db m159445) HM
2 July 1918 - One mile west fifty men making munitions for WWI were killed by TNT explosion. War ended Armistice Day 11 Nov. 1918. — — Map (db m175942) HM
First house for the care of
aged, destitute and homeless
of Onondaga County opened on
this site Feb. 1827. Existing
limestone building erected 1854. — — Map (db m145055) HM
Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten was born near Chapel Hill, North Carolina on January 5, 1893 surrounded by a very musical family. Because Libba was left handed, it was very difficult for her to learn conventional methods of playing banjo or guitar. She . . . — — Map (db m218146) HM
Dedicated to Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten,
internationally renowned and loved
as a writer and singer of folk music.
Most well known for her song "Freight Train",
she has kept 19th century folklore alive
so that her great-grandchildren and . . . — — Map (db m218145) HM
Federal, state, and local governments have been working to clean up the
legacy of municipal and industrial pollution to improve Onondaga Lake.
1896 - City builds sewers and bans backyard privies. Sewage flows
directly into Onondaga Creek . . . — — Map (db m144713) HM
Onondaga Indians, the keepers of the council fires for the Iroquois League, lived here. French soldiers and Jesuit missionaries came from Canada in 1654 to seek their friendship. In that year, Father Simon Le Moyne discovered salt springs in the . . . — — Map (db m57112) HM
Onondaga Indians, the keepers of the council fires for the Iroquois League, lived here. French soldiers and Jesuit missionaries came from Canada in 1654 to seek their friendship. In that year, Father Simon LeMoyne discovered salt springs in the . . . — — Map (db m64982) HM
Onondaga Lake was once the "Coney Island” of Central New York,
with a number of resorts and amusement parks established
along the western shore from 1875 through 1920.
The Maple Bay Hotel, with a beach, large dancing
pavilion, and . . . — — Map (db m144419) HM
Along this route a woman in white searches for her groom. Both died on their wedding night in the early 1900s while driving the 13 curves. — — Map (db m129018) HM
At Clinton Square you can once again skate where earlier generations played on the frozen Erie Canal. Clinton Square has been the center of Syracuse business, civic, and cultural events sine the first canal sections opened in the 1820s. In the 1920s . . . — — Map (db m225797) HM
”It is treason, treason, TREASON, and nothing else.” - Daniel Webster, about refusing to carry out the Fugitive Slave Law, 1851.
On September 18, 1850, President Millard Fillmore signed the Fugitive Slave Act, requiring federal marshals . . . — — Map (db m138795) HM
Buildings constructed on the banks of the canal had two distinct sides, one faced the canal and one faced the street.
The street sides of the buildings along the canal featured ornate facades to attract passing pedestrians and carriages. The . . . — — Map (db m144193) HM
You are standing across from the Weighlock Building on the towpath of the canal where the mule drivers and the mules that pulled canal boats once trod.
The Syracuse Weighlock Building, built in 1850 to weigh canal boats, is the last surviving . . . — — Map (db m138698) HM
The historic 60 foot wide right-of-way that became the Erie Canal in 1825 established N.Y.S. as the route to the west for an expanding nation. This corridor of commerce and culture, extending from Albany to Buffalo, made New York the Empire State. — — Map (db m138685) HM
”… numbers of persons, who have never felt any interest in the cause of the slave, before, now seem to have all their sympathies awakened, in his behalf.” —from Diary of Ellen Birdseye Wheaton (Boston, 1923) . . . — — Map (db m138793) HM
Typically both taverns and general stores were found at the lock sites. Both maintained gardens which supplied fresh vegetables not only for the patrons of the stores but also to the passing boatmen.
Flower gardens were also common . . . — — Map (db m144189) HM
The Erie Canal did much more than link the cities of Albany and Buffalo.
It opened America's midwestern heartland to European immigrants entering New York Harbor. The Weighlock Building, the only one remaining in the world, was built in 1850 . . . — — Map (db m144190) HM
”…when Susan B. Anthony urged Republicans to take a stand against slavery, Syracusans burned her in effigy in Hanover Square.”
Hanover Square (1) was a busy commercial district and civic gathering place in the mid-19th . . . — — Map (db m138796) HM
That's the Weighlock Building across Erie Boulevard, where canal boats were weighed and tolls paid when this busy street was the Erie Canal. Cargo boats entered the stone lock chamber beneath the overhang, gates were closed at each end, the water . . . — — Map (db m138700) HM
James K. McGuire was elected Mayor of Syracuse at 26 years old in 1895. Known as the "Boy Mayor," he was reelected two times. The McGuire family emigrated from County Fermanagh, and Irish nationalism dominated his life. As President of Clan-na-Gael, . . . — — Map (db m142299) HM
On June 9, 1825, General Lafayette was welcomed at Williston's mansion house where he breakfasted and was addressed by Judge Forman. — — Map (db m225795) HM
The locks at the Weighlock are designed in the same manner as a standard lock. However, the basic function between a traditional lock and a weighlock differ. In a traditional lock, flooding the chamber was a simple function of gravity. The locks . . . — — Map (db m144191) HM
In 1793 out of a total population of thirty-three inhabitants in the village of Salina, thirty persons were sick. The remaining three inhabitants with the help of neighborly and friendly Onondaga Indians took care of the sick for two months. In the . . . — — Map (db m138696) HM
Pitts Park is located next to the Syracuse Weighlock Building, on the site of a former widewaters where boat captains would wait their turn to enter the weighlock. At your left, where Oswego and Erie Boulevards intersect today, was the confluence of . . . — — Map (db m138699) HM
This building was originally a dry goods store typical of those along the Erie Canal. The south side of the building, opening onto Water Street, featured a storefront, while the north side served to unload goods arriving by the canal. The building . . . — — Map (db m144224) HM
Washington Street Rails Laid 1837 Removed April 21, 1937 by Mayor Rolland B. Marvin First thru train operated over the 17,000,000 dollar elevated structure Sept. 24, 1936 Washington Street construction plan approved Mar. 15, 1937 and work started . . . — — Map (db m142300) HM
This clock honors the rule that changed basketball and saved the National Basketball Association. The 24-second shot clock, which put an end to stalling tactics that were threatening the league, was used for the first time in an NBA scrimmage . . . — — Map (db m145115) HM
Several Syracuse banks sprouted here along the Erie Canal, each striving to benefit from the commerce of a fast growing city. When the first canal section opened here in 1820 the settlement had 60 people. By 1900 its population reached 108,000. . . . — — Map (db m138697) HM
The Underground Railroad: What Was It? Traveling by foot, wagon, boat, or railroad, between 100,000 and 150,000 African Americans sought freedom in Mexico, Canada, the Caribbean or the northern U.S. before the end of U.S. slavery in 1865. . . . — — Map (db m138801) HM
In 1827, the State of New York was among the first in the Union to abolish slavery. By the mid-1800's, Syracuse was known nationally as a hub of anti-slavery activity. Harriet Tubman, Gerrit Smith, the Rev. Samuel J. May, and the Rev. Jermain W. . . . — — Map (db m138797) HM
"The president of the railroad… humanely provided me with free passes for the fugitives on the road to Canada and freedom."
— Charles Merrick, Reminiscences of the Jerry Rescue, 1893
The Wesleyan Methodist Church was a . . . — — Map (db m138794) HM
A weighlock was used to weigh canalboats so that a tariff could be determined on the cargo. Each time a boat captain took on a new cargo, he was required to have the cargo weighed and pay a toll.
Boats were weighed once a year to determine the . . . — — Map (db m144192) HM
US President Franklin D. Roosevelt laid the cornerstone for this building on Sept. 29, 1936, congratulating its stewards "on the usefulness to humanity that you will afford to future generations of Americans." The College of Medicine was part of . . . — — Map (db m145075) HM
Senior Chief Engineer
of the New York Canals
His public history may be found
in the history of the General
and State Goverments;
His private [virtues?] in the memory
of his acquaintances
Born in Pennsylvania
July 22, 1763. . . . — — Map (db m181134) HM
Burial site of early settlers from Scotland. Lived in a community of market gardeners. About 60 people were buried here between 1844-1904 — — Map (db m226006) HM
"What is life to me if I am to be slave in Tennessee? My neighbors! I have lived with you many years… My home is here, my children were born here… I don't respect this law — I don't fear it — I don't obey it! It outlaws me, and I . . . — — Map (db m138792) HM
231 Civil War veterans are interred here including several killed in action and reinterred in Syracuse.
In 1951, vandals stole the original statue erected in 1895. In the early 1960's the original headstones were toppled rendering them . . . — — Map (db m181127) HM WM
