. Routes and rates for summer tours ... 1888 . rough the , an enterprising town, and Oswego Falls, situated on the opposite side of the OswegoRiver, are largely engaged in manufacturing industries, their combined population beingabout 7,000 people. At Oswego we reach the junction point with the main line. Rome is a quiet city of 13,000 population, and shares with Utica the position of and iron works. New York locomotive works, knitting mills, and other industries, furnishemployment to a large number of people. Broad, systematically arranged streets, lined withsubs
. Routes and rates for summer tours ... 1888 . rough the , an enterprising town, and Oswego Falls, situated on the opposite side of the OswegoRiver, are largely engaged in manufacturing industries, their combined population beingabout 7,000 people. At Oswego we reach the junction point with the main line. Rome is a quiet city of 13,000 population, and shares with Utica the position of and iron works. New York locomotive works, knitting mills, and other industries, furnishemployment to a large number of people. Broad, systematically arranged streets, lined withsubstantial business blocks and handsome private residences, indicate the prosperous characterof the town. McConnellsville, thirteen miles north of Rome, is a small village largely engaged in themanufacture of chairs, and has several corn-packing establishments. Beacon Beach and NorthBay resorts on Oneida Lake, are only five miles from this station. ROME, WATERTOWN AND OGDENSBURG RAILROAD. mm HillIIiiiiiinii]iMi|ifin!i!Ill|iii|H|i|ji|iiIIII iiiji. SUSPENSION BRIDGE ACROSS BLACK RIVER AT WATERTOWN. Passing Camden and West Camden, places widely known for their chair factories and corn-packing establishments, we reach Williamstown. Eight miles from the station is RedfieldSquare, where excellent trouting may be enjoyed, with good accommodations at reasonable rates. A run of nine miles brings us to Albion. Salmon River Falls, no feet high, are only sixmiles distant, and well worth visiting. The next station is Richland, twenty-nine miles east of Oswego, and is the convergingpoint of the Rome, Watertown & Ogdensburg Railroad system, and the junction point for trainsfrom the west via Niagara Falls, from the south and west via Syracuse, and from New York,Boston, and the east and south via Rome. First-class trout fishing will be found in the brooks near the village of Sandy Creek, sixmiles beyond Richland. Seven miles more, through a fine farming country, and the train halts atPierrepont Ma
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