Renewing Syracuse

c. 1450 First formed Iroquois Confederacy provided a model for Syracuse Milestones America’s democratic structure. Joined the Native American Nations of the Onondagas, Mohawks, 1820 finished and in 1849 First Medical College in the Cayugas, Senecas, and Oneidas. practical operation. The Erie Canal U.S. to adopt co-education as a Later the Tuscaroras were included. in its century long existence, policy was a Syracuse Medical contributed more to the growth of College. It opened with a group of The native peoples of upstate New Syracuse than anything in its female students in Brintnall’s Hall York created the game of lacrosse history. First Post Office established on S. Warren Street. The 2nd, 3rd, which they sometimes used in place in Syracuse and 4th women ever to receive of battle; games could last for days degrees of Doctor of Medicine in First local newspaper, and extend for miles across the 1823 this country attended the school. Onondaga Gazette. countryside. Lacrosse remains an The first, Elizabeth Blackwell, had important part of native cultural life 1825 Syracuse incorporated as a her degree conferred by Geneva and has become a popular Village, in the Town of Salina. College, which later moved to international sport. 1830 First bank, the Onondaga Syracuse and is now known as 1654 First white man to arrive to County Bank, began with $150,000 Upstate Medical University. area, Father Simon LeMoyne. in capital stock. Elizabeth Blackwell, M.D. 1786 Ephraim Webster came to Syracuse, he is accreditted to First Syracuse free public being Onondaga County’s first white 1857 library formed. settler. His homestead was believed to be just west of what we know 1861 German immigrant Frank W. today as Webster’s Pond, which was Hofmann opened a small retail meat actually a marsh land at the time. market that was expanded by his sons in 1879 to include sausage Petition for, and the 1794 making. Today, Hofmann establishment of Onondaga County, manufactures and distributes over by Asa Danforth. 80 items incuding its famous 1800s Salt potatoes are to German Frankfurters and Snappys. Syracuse what chicken wings are to Buffalo – a regional specialty 1871 opened. Its campus has been ever- identified with an upstate city. Salt growing and it is known worldwide potatoes were invented by local salt for its academic and athletic workers who boiled small potatoes, programs. skins and all, in brine for an inexpensive lunch. The tasty taters 1872 John Marsellus founded are still enjoyed today; their salt- Syracuse has a Marsellus Casket Company. He died encrusted skins dipped in melted long history of in 1941 at the age of 96 and his butter before eating. medical education. company operated as a family- These were considered managed business until 2003. Many state-of-the-art surgical famous people are buried in conditions at the Hospital of the Good Shepherd on Marsellus Caskets, most recenlty Marshall Street in 1906. President Ronald Reagan. Presidents Harry Truman, John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon also rest in caskets 1852 National Women’s Rights made in Syracuse. Convention held in Syracuse. 1877 Easy Washing Machine Corporation foundedgrowing from a 1854 First Syracuse high school small operation on Water St. to a classes held. national concern on a 26-acre tract 1855 The American candle- at Solar and Spencer Streets. making industry began in the 1878 Syracuse’s first electric Syracuse kitchen of Anthony and lamp on top of the Wieting Opera Rosina Will. The family business House in , and first soon grew into the Will and Baumer telephone appears in a Candle Company, which continues demonstration at the to produce thousands of candles Opera House. daily. The company’s most famous customer is the Pope, who orders 1879 Syracuse candles for the Vatican. University graduate Belva Lockwood was Syracuse University’s Archbold the first woman to was completed in 1907. The site of many famous athletic argue a case before 1804 The first brewery in 1831 First state railroad achievements was replaced by the the United States Syracuse was opened by Johann convention held in Syracuse. Carrier Dome in 1979. Supreme Court. Mang in his tavern on North Salina 1840 First dental chair – Street and Wolf Street. However, the invented by Milton Waldo Hanchett. Erie Canal water can be attributted to many of the City’s following 1841 First State Fair breweries, and we once had over 50 held on Salina Street in Syracuse. breweries. Although Prohibition 1846 Telegraph established closed most of Syracuse’s breweries, between Syracuse and Albany. many were able to be revived, and to this day we are home to some 1846 First plank road in the wonderful breweries. country – built between Syracuse and Central Square. 1805 First school, the Little Red Schoolhouse. 1848 Syracuse incorporated as a City and a public school system 1807 Dr. Swan is first physician established, Hiram Putnam first in Syracuse. president of Board of Education. 1819 First boat to travel the Erie 1848 First Ferris wheel built in Canal goes from Rome to Utica, and the United States built in Syracuse first lawyer, John Wilkinson, Esq. for the by two locates in Syracuse. Erie Canal workers.

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