Happy birthday, Syracuse! Our swampy outpost of a few hundred people became a village 200 years ago

Happy birthday, Syracuse!

You are officially 200 years old.

Our first step toward becoming a major Upstate New York city began on April 13, 1825, when a small outpost on the swampy banks of Onondaga Lake was incorporated into a village…

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