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Recruits from Camp Syracuse fought in World War I and were quarantined during influenza pandemic
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Recruits train with bayonets in the summer of 1917. Courtesy of the Onondaga Historical AssociationCourtesy of the Onondaga Histori
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By Robert Searing | Curator of history, Onondaga Historical Association
One Hundred and Four Years Ago: At noon on May 15, 1917, Syracuse’s most prominent citizens, including Lt. Gov. Shoeneck, Mayor Stone, former governor Horace White, Syracuse University Chancellor Day, and business moguls like Franklin, Chapin, Nettleton, and Soule, gathered in the Hiawatha Room at the sumptuous Onondaga Hotel to host a luncheon for Maj. General J. Franklin Bell.
Meet John Wilkinson, a ‘man of uncommon vision,’ who brought the railroad to Syracuse
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A 1920 photograph of the reproduction the DeWiit Clinton. Courtesy of the Onondaga Historical AssociationCourtesy of the Onondaga Histori
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By Robert Searing | Curator of history, Onondaga Historical Association
One Hundred Eighty-Six Years Ago: In the spring of 1834, Syracuse was one of many small, but growing villages that had sprung up along the Erie Canal since the completion of the first section in 1820.
The engineering marvel of its day, the Erie Canal drastically reduced the costs and time associated with transporting everything from goods, to people and ideas, and turned New York into the Empire State. At the same time, a new technology, the railroad, was emerging that ultimately displaced the canal after years of stout competition.
1865: Syracuse mourns the death of President Abraham Lincoln
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President Lincoln’s mock funeral Hanover Square, April 19, 1865. Courtesy of the Onondaga Historical AssociationCourtesy of the Onondaga Histori
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By Robert Searing | Curator of history, Onondaga Historical Association
One Hundred Fifty-Six Years Ago: It is difficult to imagine, even having lived through the last year of the Covid-19 pandemic, the manic week endured by the American people beginning on April 9, 1865. That evening, newspapers in Central New York and all across the war-torn nation announced the remarkable news of Robert E. Lee’s surrender to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia.
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