1865: Syracuse mourns the death of President Abraham Lincoln
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Today 4:00 PM
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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End of an era: See Thruway toll booths being torn down in Syracuse (photos)
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Liverpool, N.Y. Tolls are not going away, but the booths are.
Demolition began this week at exit 38 at Route 57 in Liverpool. The removal of the toll booths is one of the last steps in the state’s $355 million installation of cashless tolling that went online in mid-November.
The work is being done at night, when fewer vehicles are on the road.
The new automated tolling works with existing E-ZPass accounts. Drivers without E-ZPass tags will have an image of their license plate captured with a toll bill mailed to the registered owner.
1931: SU student builds and rides (briefly) a rocket sled on Oneida Lake
Updated Mar 14, 2021;
Posted Mar 14, 2021
In 1958, during the midst of the “Space Race,” Post-Standard reporter Dave O’Brien went out to Oneida Lake, near South Bay and the Syracuse Yacht and Country Club, to ask residents if they remembered something which had happened there 27 years before.
Did they recall 21-year-old Syracuse University student Harry Bull and his rocket sled in March 1931?
Nearly all did, some chuckling.
One local resident remembered Bull as “that crazy college student who nearly got himself killed on Oneida Lake in 1931.”
But he was much more than that.
1933: FDR’s inauguration brings a sense of ‘cautious optimism’ to a Depression-weary Syracuse
Updated Mar 09, 2021;
Posted Mar 09, 2021
- Franklin Roosevelt’s inauguration, March 4, 1933. FDR spoke to a crowd estimated at over 100,000 and millions more on the radio. During his unprecedented four terms, the radio became an important political tool. Roosevelt’s was the last March inauguration. The ratification of the 20th Amendment in 1933 changed the date to January 20th. Courtesy of the Library of CongressCourtesy of the Library of Congr
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By Robert Searing | Curator of History, Onondaga Historical Association
Eighty-Eight years ago, Americans found themselves adrift upon a sea of uncertainty, facing a tidal wave of challenges that threatened to sink the ship of state. Like the pandemic today, this was a global crisis, though not one of viral origins, but one rooted in the economic catastrophe of the stock market crash on Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929