Syracuse, New York, USA
1895 - Syracuse

Syracuse, a city and port of entry of New York, the capital of Onondaga co., is situated on the main line of the New York Central Railroad, and on the Erie and Oswego Canals, at the S. terminus of the latter, 148 miles W. by N. of Albany, and 150 miles E. of Buffalo. The railroad facilities of Syracuse extend in every direction, embracing several main lines with their branches, and affording convenient communication with all the principal cities of the state. Syracuse is a manufacturing city, its chief industry having formerly been, for more than a century, the manufacture of salt from deposits which were discovered as early as 1654 on the shores of Onondaga Lake by Jesuit missionaries from France, and which have been largely worked until the present by the state, to which they formerly yielded immense revenues. From these revenues the original cost of the Erie Canal (1817-25) was paid, but owing to the successful development of the salt industry in other localities the state salt-works at Syracuse have ceased to be remunerative. An allied industry, the manufacture of soda ash and kindred products by the Solvay Process Company, has been established at Geddes, a suburb of Syracuse, where 3000 hands are employed and $3,000,000 capital invested. Other principal manufactures carried on here are clothing, wagons, mowers and reapers, plough; furniture, steam-heating apparatus, boots and shoes, and novelties of many kinds. The capital invested in all industries reported in the census of 1890 was $17,207,955 and value of product $25,540,304. There are 14 national, state, and private banks, 2 savings-banks, and a trust: safe deposit company. The city has a high school and 32 graded public schools, and there are numerous private and denominational schools. The higher education is provided for by Syracuse University, beautifully situated in a campus of 50 acres...

In 1789, Asa Dunforth established salt-works here, and a village grew up, called Bogardus Corners; it changed its name several times, until in 1825 the village was incorporated under the name of Syracuse. In 1847 the adjoining village of Salina was merged in Syracuse, and the city was incorporated. Parts of Geddes and Onondaga have been annexed since. Pop. in 1860, 28,119; in 1870, 43,051; in 1880, 51,792; in 1890, 88,143; in 1892 (state census), 91,648.

Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott

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