Site of Lock 71, Summit Level; 710 feet above Rome; from here water flowed north to St Lawrence, south to Mohawk. State Education Department 1938 — — Map (db m137974) HM
Settled 1795, named for Gerrit Boon, native of Leyden, Holland, agent of Holland Land Co., town formed 1805, village incorporated 1855. — — Map (db m96258) HM
Has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979 by the United States Department of the Interior William G. Pomeroy Foundation 2013 — — Map (db m137976) HM
First used as a school, later bought with large tract of land by John G. Post. Passed from family in 1905. Oneida County D.P.W. 1969 — — Map (db m137980) HM