. Onondaga, or, Reminiscences of earlier and later times [microform] being a series of historical sketches relative to Onondaga ; with notes on the several towns in the county, and Oswego. prings in town, none of which afford any verygreat quantity of water, although highly impregnated withforeign substances. From the highest hills, the SkaneatelesLake may be seen stretching itself far away in the distance,on the west, to the north, and the Otisco on the east, both ofwhich are beautiful bodies of water, five miles apart, and boundthe town on the west and east. Borodino is the principal vil-lag
. Onondaga, or, Reminiscences of earlier and later times [microform] being a series of historical sketches relative to Onondaga ; with notes on the several towns in the county, and Oswego. prings in town, none of which afford any verygreat quantity of water, although highly impregnated withforeign substances. From the highest hills, the SkaneatelesLake may be seen stretching itself far away in the distance,on the west, to the north, and the Otisco on the east, both ofwhich are beautiful bodies of water, five miles apart, and boundthe town on the west and east. Borodino is the principal vil-lage, containing a Post Office, two churches, several stores andabout eight hundred inhabitants. Statistics from the census of 1845, respecting the town ofSpafford:— Number of inhabitants, 1,977; subject to military duty,220; voters, 484; aliens, 8; children attending CommonSchools, 498; acres of improved land, 14,560; grist mills,1; saw mills, 7 ; carding machines, 1; tanneries, 1; Church-es—^Baptist, 1; Presbyterian, 1; Methodist, 2; commonschools, 10 ; taverns, 4 ; stores, 5 ; farmers, 278 ; merchants,7; manufacturers, 6; mechanics, 46; clergymen, 8; physi-cians, 3. OSWEGO. 353. -?iiiii!imiiiiiiiin III ?iiiWi
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