Syracuse
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- Names
Syracuse
Webster's Landing
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Located at S end of Lake Onondaga on brine spring; home of Onondaga Indians & headquarters of Iroquois League; visited by French explorers early 17th cen.; Europeans were originally evicted by Amerindians & unhealthy swamps; became trading post by 1786.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Canby, Historic Places (1984); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984);
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