War of 1812 Landmarks in Central New York-- Part 2

**  Lake Ontario made Central New York a strategic area and much fighting took place there: Fort Ontario in May 1814, Sackett's Harbor in May 1813 and the Battle of Sandy Creek in May 1814.

**  In Auburn, at 187 Genesee Street (between Seymour Library and Schweinfurth Museum) there were barracks used by soldiers going between Fort Ontario and Buffalo.

**  A Route 5 historical marker on Quality Hill in Lenox shows where mounted troops practiced.

**  The State Arsenal, at the corner of Seneca Turnpike and South Salina Street in Syracuse, stocked munitions such as flints and muskets.  This is the story that got the last several posts started.

Brock-Perry

War of 1812 Landmarks in Central New York-- Part 1

From the May 28th Syracuse Post-Standard.

**  The Seneca Turnpike (looks like I am going to have to do some research on this road) was the main east-west roadway in the area.  Soldiers heading for Fort Niagara marched west.  Captured British and Canadian prisoners would be marching east to prison camps at Albany.

**  A small cemetery off Seneca Pike (across from Upstate University Hospital at Community Green has the graves of two soldiers who died of illness while marching along the turnpike.  (This would be where the two captains I mentioned yesterday were buried.)

**  Armaments were made at a small foundry, Onondaga Furnace.  After the war, it made stoves and kettles for the salt industry.  Its site is now Syracuse's Elmwood Park.

Brock-Perry