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
Anna Hyatt Huntington American 1876-1973 Young Abe Lincoln on Horseback, 1963 bronze, 13 high This statue was presented in 1974 to Syracuse University along with several other smaller sculptures, and many of the personal and business . . . — — Map (db m145572) HM
the head representing the Atlantic Ocean features Neptune's trident upholding a crescent shaped moon, indicative of the relationship between the moon and the tides. To one side is the compass chart and to the other is the compass box top . . . — — Map (db m110223) HM
the Boyne head features the date "1690" - the year of the Battle of the Boyne when the Catholic King James was defeated by King William (Billy) of Orange.
The river rises in County Westmeath, touches County Offaly, flows into County Meath . . . — — Map (db m110217) HM
The Coleman Family The Leigh-Hayden Family
The O'Brien Family Hon. Leo Hayes & Family
The Dorsey Family The Gooley Family
Jerry Wilson The Collins Family Chris Witting
The Ken Davis Family The Dennis Ryan Family
Mayor Thomas . . . — — Map (db m110366) HM
the Liffey is the only female head and occupies the place of honour facing onto the quays and the river. The face is crowned by flowers and fruits and superimposed by a trident representing the city's powers over the waters of Dublin Bay . . . — — Map (db m110220) HM
the greatest of Irish rivers - the lordly Shannon - features oak leaves and acorns, themselves symbols of strength and nobility. The trident represents Limerick City's sovereignty over the mighty Estuary. The river rises in [C]ounty [C]avan . . . — — Map (db m110222) HM
HISTORY
The Alvord House is located in Fred Sehr Memorial Park at 399 Marsden Road, Syracuse, NY 13208 within the Lyncourt neighborhood on the east side of the Town of Salina. According to The Review (D) dated January 12, 1977 stated that . . . — — Map (db m152099) HM
Lilly Post No. 66 G.A.R.,
Dept. of New York.
Organized 1870
Past Commanders,
Gustavus Sniper Nicholas Grumbach Wm. Rautenberg
Officers, 1887
Commander, John Gebhardt S.V.C., James W. Anderson
J.V.C., Edw. J. Luff Adjt., . . . — — Map (db m181145) HM WM
"No man ever possessed a more generous heart, or more honorable feelings." — from Enoch Reed's obituary, Syracuse Standard, June 10, 1853
Born free in Ohio about 1813, African American Enoch Reed was one of more than a . . . — — Map (db m138799) HM
take into consideration the Principles of the American Government, and the extent to which they are trampled under foot by the Fugitive Slave Law. a call for a mass convention, signed by George Barnes, 1851
George and Rebecca . . . — — Map (db m138791) HM
A strictly honest man
Born about 1807 in Oneida County, Prince Jackson was one of the earliest African American settlers in Syracuse and the earliest to have a documented deed for property. He came to Syracuse about 1827, married . . . — — Map (db m138798) HM
By the 1820s and 1830s, families such as the Allens, Jacksons, Reeds, Robinsons, Thompsons, Wales, and Wandells formed a coherent black community.
Rose Hill Cemetery
Established in 1841, Rose Hill was the burial place of many . . . — — Map (db m138800) HM
North Facing Side
This memorial is presented to the City of
Syracuse through personal contributions
of the enlisted men of the Thirty Eighth
Infantry, United States Army as a tribute
to the heroes among their number who
made the . . . — — Map (db m145150) WM
To the memory of the soldiers
and sailors of this country who
volunteered and served in the
War with Spain, Philippine Insurrection
and Boxer Uprising in China — — Map (db m145114) WM
April 21, 1810 John Gridley
bought 2 acres of land here.
He and his wife Nancy paid
Moses and Aaron Warner to
build this stone house — — Map (db m175929) HM
This 33-acre parcel of land was renamed in 1969 in honor of James E. Heath, a beloved former Commissioner of Parks and Recreation for the City of Syracuse who believed in the importance of public recreation in urban areas for people of all ages.
. . . — — Map (db m145048) HM
Large Iroquois-Onondaga
village located on east bank of
Onondaga Creek and extending
to this site
Onondaga Indians began to
settle here after the burning
of Onondaga Village in
Frontenac's Invasion 1696
From 1720 known as Lower . . . — — Map (db m124421) HM
Used by the Dutch in 1634, by the Jesuit Missionaries, by Sir William Johnson and by Asa Danforth the Onondaga pioneer, carrying on his back the saw for the first sawmill in Central New York. — — Map (db m145049) HM
Home Of
Harriet May Mills, Pres. Of
N.Y. Woman Sufferage Assoc.
1st Woman to Run For Sec.
Of State (1920) Founder Of
On. Cty. Women's Democ. Club
— — Map (db m109248) HM
This area in the 1820s was
among the first local sites
to make salt by using sun
and wind to evaporate
brine from local springs. — — Map (db m145077) HM
