Oswego: Difference between revisions
Created page with "{{pagebanner|Pagebanner default.jpg}} '''Oswego''' (pop 18142) is a small city in Central New York on the southeastern shore of Lake Ontario at the mouth of the Oswego Ri..." |
(No difference)
|
Revision as of 06:57, 18 February 2014
Oswego (pop 18142) is a small city in Central New York on the southeastern shore of Lake Ontario at the mouth of the Oswego River.
Understand
Established in 1722 as a British trading post, Oswego had a long military history and a series of fortifications as Fort Oswego (1727-1756), Fort George (1755-1756) and Fort Ontario (1755-1778, 1792-1814 and 1839-1940). Before the American Revolution (1776-1783), Oswego was British and its arch-nemesis Cataraqui (1673-1758), directly across Lake Ontario, was French. In the War of 1812, Oswego and Sackets Harbor were on the front line against British forces stationed in Canada. The city's military history ends with the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division (United States) relocated away from the region during World War II; Fort Ontario then housed approximately 982 wartime Jewish refugees (August 1944-February 1946) before being turned over to New York State post-war. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1970.
Get in
Intercity rail, bus and air connections are available at Syracuse. Centro [1] offers regional bus service from Oswego-Syracuse and Oswego-Fulton-Mexico.
- By car
- New York State Route 481 runs north from Interstate 81 in Syracuse via Fulton
- New York State Route 104 runs east from Rochester (New York)
- By boat
- The 23.7 mile (38 km) Oswego Canal, built in 1828, connects the Erie Canal at Three Rivers (near Liverpool) to Lake Ontario at Oswego. The canal has a depth of 14 ft (4.2 m), with seven locks spanning the 118 ft (36 m) change in elevation.
Get around
- Oswego Transit Center, W. 1st Street & W. Bridge Street. Local and regional CENTRO bus $1 (local bus), 6-9 yrs and 65+ half-price.
See
- Fort Ontario.
- 1 Safe Haven Museum, 2 East 7th St.. The War Relocation Authority established the Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter as the first and only refugee shelter in the United States, housing primarily Europeans of Jewish descent.
- SUNY Oswego. Founded 1861 as Oswego Normal School, a teachers' college which now offers a variety of liberal arts degree programmes. Former students include comedian Jerry Seinfeld, NBC weatherman Al Roker and ESPN anchors Steve Levy and Linda Cohn.
Do
- The Underground Railroad included eleven historic sites in Oswego County;[2][3] most are individual safe houses which served as waystations for the legendary 1850s freedom train north to Canada.