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Long lake
The name is an Onondaga term meaning long lake
The name comes from the Onondaga term for the adjacent Skaneateles Lake, which means 'long lake'. The town was formed on February 26, 1830, from the town of Marcellus, and in 1840 it annexed areas of the town of Spafford. The village lies at the north end of the lake. Early turnpikes helped development.
No God
A reform community took over a large farm in 1843
The town was noted for taking part in reform movements before the Civil War. In 1843 the Skaneateles Community acquired a large farm and developed small industries. It ultimately failed because of internal difficulties and outside concern about its unorthodox social practices. Locals sometimes called it "No God", because of the atheistic views of its members. It dissolved in 1846.
1837
Men from the town joined the Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837
Some Skaneateles men volunteered for the ill-fated Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837, to liberate Canada. They were imprisoned by the British in Australia.
1876
In 1876 a resident gave the centennial address and had it printed
On July 4, 1876, resident John Dodgson Barrow delivered the centennial address in Skaneateles, recounting the history of the village up to that time. In 1891 he had it printed in Syracuse as a 20-page book. Barrow was also a Hudson River School artist.
Anti-slavery
Quakers, the Underground Railroad and an anti-slavery town
Quaker congregations were involved in abolitionist activity, and Underground Railroad sites have been documented in Skaneateles. Syracuse nearby was known nationally as a center of abolition. Even so, an early historian, Beauchamp, said Skaneateles had "eclipsed Syracuse as an anti-slavery town."
“...eclipsed Syracuse as an anti-slavery town”
Beauchamp, an early historian, as the article reports
Day 3, evening
It comes after William H. Seward House.
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