Identifier: historyofoswegoc01john (find matches)
Title: ... History of Oswego County, New York
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Johnson, Crisfield
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Publisher: Philadelphia, L.H. Everts & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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or of Scribas patent. The plat ran from the riverwest nearly to the line of Military lot No. 6, now known asthe Van Buret) tract, and from the lake southward to theneighborhood of Oneida street. The streets running north andsouth were named—as now—First, Second, Third, Fourth, etc., but those running east and west receivedentirely different appellations from those they now be;ir.Surveyor-General De Witt was as chtssical in regard toOswegos streets as he or the land-commissioners had beenrespecting the townships of the Military tract, and theconstellations of the heavens were utilized an freely as theheroes of Greece and Home had been. Only nine street;!were named at the time in question, but the number ofappellations txiken fVom the celestial .sphere was afterwardsincreased to fifteen. To promote the clearness of subse-quent history we will give the whole number here. The iiorlheriimost street laid out in 1797 was Aquila, avery short one, which w;is nearly an eastward extension of
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mi^TWwmB^^^vm i 4 HISTORY OF OSWEGO COUNTY, NEW YORK, 137 Bronson street, running through to the river, but is nowclosed up. As extended to the e;Lst side it is now culledMercer street. On the east side, al.so, still north of A(;uihi,were afterwards laid Auriga street, now De Witt, and Orionstreet, now Mercer. South of Aquila street the ancientand modern names are as follows: Lyra street, now VanBuren ; Aries street, now Schuyler; Taurus street, nowSeneca; Gemini street, now Cayuga; Cancer street, nowBridge; Leo street, now Oneida; Virgo street, now Mo-hawk ; Libra street, now Utica; Scorpio street, now Albany;Sagittarius street, now Erie; Capricornus street, now Ni-agara ; Aquarius street, now Ohio. Certainly it was notSimeon De Witts fault that Oswego did not become a celes-tial city. The two blocks now occupied by the public square were re-served, in 1797, for that purpose, together with the next oneto the east. The three blocks north of these,—Nos. 8, 9, and10,—bounded by Thir

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