On East Main Street (New York State Route 174), on the right when traveling east.
This ancient Native American trail served as the main East-West route through Central NY. In 1794, work began to expand the route from Fort Schuyler and the Mohawk River to the Genesee River in Western NY creating "The Great Genesee Road". In 1800, . . . — — Map (db m153734) HM
On North Street (New York State Route 174), on the left when traveling south.
Est. 1802 by Eastern Rel. Soc. of Marcellus. Local residents & Veterans of Revolutionary War to WWII interred here. Last burial ca. 1986. — — Map (db m206310) HM
On North Main Street at Singleton Avenue, on the left when traveling north on North Main Street.
Opened 1846. Extended from Syracuse to Central Square. Last Toll collected 1913. Known as Old Salt Road. Later became NY State Rte 11. — — Map (db m194667) HM
On Octagon Road at New York State Route 80, on the left when traveling west on Octagon Road.
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
On Academy Street at Henneberry Road, on the right when traveling west on Academy Street.
Built 1820 by N. Sterling.
Frederick Freeman first
pastor. Abandoned in 1834.
Roman Catholic Church,
1866-92. Now LeMoyme Hall. — — Map (db m143914) HM
On Berry Road (County Route 186) 1 mile south of Cherry Valley Turnpike (U.S. 20), on the right when traveling south.
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
On U.S. 20 at Pompey Center Road (County Route 10), on the right when traveling west on U.S. 20.
Part of David Green 1796
estate. 1835 owners
Robert Fleming & Silas
Holbrook. William G.
Pomeroy Research Center &
Museum 2003. — — Map (db m143883) HM
On Academy Street at Henneberry Road (New York State Route 182), on the right when traveling east on Academy Street.
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
On Onondaga Lake Parkway (New York State Route 370) 1 mile south of Oswego Street.
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
On Court Street (New York State Route 298) at Windham Avenue, on the right when traveling east on Court Street.
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
On West Genessee Street (U.S. 20) near Fuller Street, on the right when traveling east.
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
On East Genesee Street (U.S. 20) near Leitch Avenue, on the left when traveling west.
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
On West Genesee Street (U.S. 20) near Fuller Street, on the right when traveling west.
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
On East Genesee Street (U.S. 20) 0.2 miles east of State Street Road (New York State Route 321), on the left when traveling west.
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
Near West Genesee Street (U.S. 20) near West Lake Street.
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
On West Genesee Street at West Lake Street, on the right when traveling east on West Genesee Street.
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
On Bridge Street (New York State Route 297) 0.1 miles south of State Fair Boulevard, on the left when traveling north.
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
On Bridge Street (Route 297) 0.1 miles north of Milton Avenue, on the right when traveling north.
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
On Bridge Street (New York State Route 297) 0.1 miles north of Milton Avenue, on the left when traveling north.
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
On Bridge Street (New York State Route 297) 0.1 miles south of State Fair Boulevard, on the left when traveling north.
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
On Milton Avenue west of Lamont Avenue, on the right when traveling west.
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
On Cedarvale Road at Makyes Road, on the right when traveling east on Cedarvale Road.
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
On East Lake Road (New York State Route 41) at Nunnery Rd. on East Lake Road.
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
On East Lake Street (New York State Route 41) at Nunnery Road/Rose Hill Road (NY Rt 174), on the right when traveling south on East Lake Street.
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
On Onondaga Road (New York State Route 173) at Onondaga Boulevard, on the right when traveling south on Onondaga Road.
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
On Onondaga Road (New York State Route 173) east of OCC Drive, on the left when traveling east.
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
On Martin Luther King East at State Street, on the left when traveling east on Martin Luther King East.
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
On Martin Luther King East at State Street, on the left when traveling east on Martin Luther King East.
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
On Long Branch Road, 0.8 miles east of John Glenn Avenue, on the right when traveling east.
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
On Interstate 90, 1 mile west of New York State Route 233, on the right when traveling east.
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
On Long Branch Road, 0.8 miles east of John Glenn Blvd., on the right when traveling east.
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
On West Seneca Turnpike at Cedarvale Road, on the right when traveling east on West Seneca Turnpike.
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
On East Water Street at North Salina Street, on the right when traveling west on East Water Street.
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
On East Washington Street west of Montgomery Street, on the right when traveling west.
”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
Near East Water Street just east of Market Street, on the left when traveling east.
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
On Erie Boulevard East (New York State Route 5) east of Montgomery Street, on the right when traveling west.
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
On Erie Boulevard East (New York State Route 5) east of Montgomery Street, on the right when traveling west.
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
On South Townsend Street north of East Genesee Street (New York State Route 92), on the left when traveling north.
”… 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
Near East Water Street just east of Montgomery Street, on the left when traveling east.
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
On East Water Street just east of Montgomery Street, on the left when traveling east.
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
On East Water Street at East Genesee Street, on the right when traveling east on East Water Street.
”…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
On Erie Boulevard East (New York State Route 5) east of Montgomery Street, on the right when traveling west.
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
On East Washington Street just east of Montgomery Street, on the right when traveling west.
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 South Salina Street at West Water Street, on the right when traveling south on South Salina Street.
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
Near Erie Boulevard East (New York State Route 5) just east of Montgomery Street, on the right when traveling east.
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
On Erie Boulevard East at Oswego Boulevard (New York State Route 5), on the left when traveling east on Erie Boulevard East.
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
On Erie Boulevard East west of Montgomery Street, on the right when traveling east.
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
Near Erie Boulevard East (New York State Route 5) just east of Montgomery Street, on the right when traveling east.
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
Near East Washington Street east of Montgomery Street, on the right when traveling west.
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
On South Franklin Street at West Jefferson Street, on the left when traveling south on South Franklin Street.
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
On South Clinton Street at Erie Boulevard West, on the left when traveling south on South Clinton Street.
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
On East Jefferson Street at East Onondaga Street, on the left when traveling east on East Jefferson Street.
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
On South Clinton Street south of Erie Boulevard West, on the left when traveling south.
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
On East Jefferson Street at East Onondaga Street, on the left when traveling east on East Jefferson Street.
"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
Near East Water Street just east of Montgomery Street, on the left when traveling east.
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
