HISTORY MYSTERY: Great Northern Mall
In 1975, things began to happen in the northern part of Onondaga County, in the Town of Clay. Family farmers were selling their land. In 1976, Walter Farnholtz sold 2.5 acres, Lillian Gaylord sold 5.2 acres, and Lois and Helen Bettinger sold 1 acre to Wilmorite. June Hullin sold 5.6 acres in 1977 and...
HISTORY MYSTERY: Clay Archaeological Digs
Pictured are Jessica Bicko, left and Cassie Hough participants in the second dig at the original location of the old Clay Hamlin log cabin on Henry Clay Blvd. They are recording their activities after having dug in one of the six test pits in the twenty-meter square grid that had previously been...
HISTORY MYSTERY: Clay Train Wreck
The first serious casualty that occurred since the construction of the Northern Railroad which traveled through Clay happened in 1874 on a morning about five o’clock at the drawbridge over the Oneida River to Brewerton. The unfortunate train was the regular morning passenger train from Syracuse, going...
HISTORY MYSTERY: Bayberry Early Years
Early in 1955, according to the Liverpool-Salina Review, the construction of arterial highways (Thruway and Route 81) was expected to dramatically impact our area. Another impetus for home construction was the new guarantee of the federal...
HISTORY MYSTERY: Warren F. Moore Memories
At a casual Farewell Party for Warren F. Moore on September 5, 2014, at Pine Plains Cemetery, I finally meet the famous man. You would have seen him on the riding mower taking care of the grounds from 1986 until 2013. He went...
HISTORY MYSTERY: Pine Plains Cemetery History
On April 9, 2012, the cemetery celebrated its 200th birthday to honor the first burial on April 9, 1812 of Peter Young, a member of the Young family, one of the first Palatines who settled in Clay. At that time it...
HISTORY MYSTERY: Towpath Road and Bridge
When the Oswego Canal was built in 1820, it utilized the Seneca and Oswego Rivers between Mud Lock near Liverpool and a lock around the falls at Phoenix. It was needed to connect Oswego, Fulton and Phoenix north with Syracuse and...
HISTORY MYSTERY: Rites of Spring
Several years ago while on a visit to Lock 23 on the Oneida River in Caughdenoy, I met this group of men with fishing gear setting up their Bar-B-Que on a picnic table. Of course I asked them what they were doing so early in spring (March...
HISTORY MYSTERY: Clay Country Crafters
Thirty years ago on March 11, 1991, the Clay Country Crafters held their first class and meeting. It all started with two women who loved history and Clay discussing at a church coffee hour, “how could we bring to the women (and men...
HISTORY MYSTERY: Hamlet of Euclid
Even to this day, Euclid retains many of the original structures of the days of the attached map when it was a bustling neighborhood with many enterprises. Before the Town of Clay incorporated in 1827 taking half of the Town of Cicero and...
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