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Meet John Wilkinson, a ‘man of uncommon vision,’ who brought the railroad to Syracuse
Posted Apr 28, 2021
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.
A World of Words and Wires
Updated Jan 31, 2021;
Posted Jan 31, 2021
Clinton Square, circa 1900. Wires abound in this photograph of a city at the dawn of a new century. By 1909, when the citys 3 major telegraph/telephone companies merged, they had removed an estimated 2,636 poles, with 4,600 cross arms, and 775 miles of copper wire from the city streets. Photo courtesy of Onondaga Historical Association.
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By Robert Searing | Curator of History, Onondaga Historical Association.
“What hath God wrought?” On May 24, 1844, Samuel Morse sat amongst a gathering of Congressmen in the U.S. Capitol Building. He transmitted this simple and profound question from the Bible’s Book of Numbers, to a railroad station in Baltimore. To the astonishment of the onlookers, moments later, Alfred Vail transmitted the message back to the Capitol, sending electric signals across the telegraph lines Morse had painstakingly developed (with some Congressional funding) over the pre