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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);

Born

Sean Healy (American, born 1971)

Active

Carrie Mae Weems (American, born 1953)

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