Perpetual Rail Franchises Shaped Syracuse Streets
Village boards granted enduring railroad franchises across Central New York including Syracuse. Early councils gave in perpetuity to attract rail lines, creating long lasting rights to streets, crossings and rail alignments that endured until elevated tracks and later mergers. Strong entities include Syracuse Utica Railroad, New York Central, West Shore, and Rome Watertown Ogdensburg lines.
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New York
Syracuse
Salt City
Svere
Ulfhas
Diot
Utica Railroad
Washington St
Sallway
Warren St
Vanderbiit Square
New York Central
Syracuse & Chenango Valley Railroad
Chenango Branch
Rome, Watertown & Ogdensburg
The
Central Now
Clinton
Franklin
City of Syrar
N. Clinton St
Geddes Sts
West Shore
the Central
Syracuse & Binghamton ‘Railroad
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Road
First Road
Oswego, Binghamton & New York Road
Lackawanna
Refuse Request To Aid Band In Syracuse 1845
In 1845 Syracuse residents sought a village band with 145 dollars for instruments. B R Norton and others petitioned the village board on November 3 for the appropriation. On November 23 trustee and postmaster John Wilkinson proposed that trustees could not appropriate funds for instruments or raise funds by tax to support such objects.
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B. R B. Norton
Syracuse
Jobn Wilkinson
Church Picnickers Traveled by Boat to Green Lake
On Thursday the Sunday School and congregation plan an excursion to Green Lake leaving the packet dock at 3 o clock in the morning aboard the steamer Joko Green way and barge John Rugel will accompany the excursionists providing music for the day an attractive program will be carried out at the lake and all may expect an enjoyable day.
Syracuse Fever and Ague Noted in Early Marsh Town
Early Syracuse, laid out in marshes, was noted for fever and ague. Travelers passing through often avoided the place, many staying overnight in Lod, near Walnut Avenue and Genesee Street, as they shunned extended stays in the village of Lod.
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Syracuse
Lod
F. Genesee
Meat markets closed on Sunday schedule unclear
Fragmentary note reports meat markets were closed on Sunday with a stated morning closing time. Text is garbled with misspellings and uncertain dates, but implies a Sunday shutdown period and a possible morning reopening. No clear individuals or organizations are identifiable.
Firemen Save Four Youths Trapped in Opera House
Four youths named Leon Fox Charles Melis and Wy Sewell were trapped inside the Grand Opera House yesterday afternoon after a jammed lock. Firemen freed them through a window, ending the incident. Authorities from the company are reported to be inspecting the fire safety measures.
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Leon Fox
Charles Melis
Wy Sewell
Caintens
Tracy
Syracuse 1810 Census Reveals Temperance and Growth
The Syracuse village board in 1842 opposed licensing liquor sellers and backed temperance houses while 1810 Hooper census of Salina Town shows 1,259 residents in Syracuse with Dutch and British surnames, a large inn, and a few widowed women as heads of households. The article also notes the town’s clock atop Gridley Building, its two foot hour hand, half ton weights, and 11 feet pendulum, maintained by Charles Ralph for 33 years.
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Gridley Building
Syracuse
Charles Ralph
Board of Excise
Salina
Jasper Hooper
District of New York
Onondaga County
Salina Town
Hooper
Jonthan
John
Aeiilia
Hoop
Ers
Fastus Rowe
Ohe
William H. Beach
Re Save
Onondaga
Pompey
Tully
Oliseo
Sarcelius
Manlius
Camillus
United States Census Bureau
Washington
Liverpool
Otd
State of
New Y
York
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James, Willow, Hickory Sts
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Bourckeezer
United States
At Ee
Ralph
Hendrickson
New Yorks City
Amos Mason
Syracust
Abondage County
Dre Wicks
Gridley
the Journal-American
Pioneer Trust Company
Central
Journal-American
First Trust & Deposit Company
South Wenea
Syracuse, N.Y
Tedete
Deppen
Federal Reserve Sys
Fayette Park
Conver Sansa Avo
Sty
Simacom, N.Y
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