Onondaga County, New York

Street maps, historic prints and keepsakes for 13 Onondaga County towns.

The largest by population is Syracuse (148,620).

About these towns

Baldwinsville: The village is named after Jonas Baldwin, who built a dam across the Seneca River to generate energy and a private canal to maintain the integrity of the water highway.

Camillus: Most of the current-day Town of Camillus was part of the former Central New York Military Tract. Much of the southeastern portion of the town, corresponding to Fairmount, was not part of the Military Tract but was instead part of the original Onondaga Reservation territory that came under New York State control after the Treaty of Cayuga Bridge in 1795.

Elbridge: Elbridge was part of Military Township No. 5 (Camillus) created following the American Revolution and given to veterans in lieu of payment for service during the War for Independence.

Jordan: It is part of the Syracuse metropolitan area. It was named after the Jordan River.

Liverpool: The area was originally inhabited by the Iroquois, starting in the 16th century. In the mid-17th century, Canadian French Jesuits visited the area, setting up missions.

Manlius: In the 17th century, Onondaga people settled a town on the south side of what would later become Manlius. French explorers visited the town around 1654 and described the town as having an earthwork and ringed by walls.

Marcellus: The town was formed in 1794; the Town of Geddes was removed in 1798. The township of Camillus was taken off in 1799.

Minoa: Minoa is in the former Central New York Military Tract. It was known as "Manlius Station", a stop on the Syracuse and Utica Railroad (completed in 1839), until the name was changed to Minoa in 1895.

North Syracuse: The village was originally called Centerville and changed to its present name in 1880. It became an incorporated village in 1925. Among the first settlers, the Fergerson family located there in 1826.

Skaneateles: The area was part of the former Central New York Military Tract. On February 26, 1830, the town of Skaneateles was formed from the town of Marcellus, and the town later annexed areas of the Town of Spafford in 1840.

Solvay: The village was initially founded in 1794 by James Geddes and was initially called "Geddesburgh." The first residents were mostly Irish, subsequently joined by Tyroleans and Poles.

Syracuse: The area which would become Syracuse was home to the Onondaga Nation, one of the five nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, for centuries prior to European arrival.

Tully: Tully was within the former Central New York Military Tract, an area which the federal government reserved to use for granting plots of land as bounty and pay to soldiers and veterans for their service during the American Revolution.

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Founding years, populations and town notes come from each town's Wikipedia and Wikidata entries. All New York towns.