Utica, New York, USA
1895 - Utica

Utica, a handsome city of Oneida co., N.Y., on the Mo hawk River, the Erie Canal, and the Central Railroad, 95 miles W.N.W. of Albany, 52 miles E. of Syracuse, and 383 miles from Washington. Lat. 43°6'49" N.; lon. 75° 13' W. . It is pleasantly situated on the S. bank of the Mo hawk. The site is nearly level, with a gentle declivity towards the N. The streets are wide, and the houses mostly well built of brick or stone. Most of the public buildings and mercantile houses are on Genesee street. The city ex tends nearly 4 miles E. and W. The Erie Canal, here 70 feet wide, passes through it, and the Chenango Canal connects it with Binghamton. The state lunatic asylum, located I mile W. of the centre of the city, consists of several large and expensive buildings of stone and brick, capable of accommodating several hundred patients. Utica contains a city hall, more than 30 churches, a public library, a court-house, an opera-house, several academies, 3 hospitals, 2 orphan asylums, 7 banks, and a handsome Government building for the post-office and United States courts, erected at a cost of $479,000. Three daily and 6 weekly £ and several other periodicals are published here. It has gas-works, water-works which supply 400, 000,000 gallons in a year, a cotton-factory, 2 woollen-mills, 4 extensive manufactories of boots and shoes, 2 organ factories, a knitting-mill, 2 stove-foundries, and manufactures of steam-engines, wagons, millstones, machinery, farming-implements, fire-bricks, varnish, pumps, &c., According to the census of 1890, the capital employed in all industries reported from Utica was $12,257,855, and the value of products $13,205,572. Around this city lies an extensive dairying region, with many cheese-factories, of which Utica is the centre of trade. The city is the S. terminus of the Utica line of the Rome, Watertown & Ogdensburg Railroad, which here connects with the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, the New York, Ontario & Western Railroad, the New York Central Rail road, the West Shore & Buffalo Railroad, and other lines. Utica was incorporated as a city in 1830. Pop. in 1830, 8323; in 1850, 17,565; in 1860, 22,529; in 1870, 28,804; in 1880, 33,914; in 1890, 44,007.

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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