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Happy birthday, Syracuse! Our swampy outpost of a few hundred people became a village 200 years ago

“Do you call this a village?" an early Syracuse visitor asked. "It would make an owl weep to fly over it.”

Believed to be the earliest photographic image of Syracuse, this scene was captured by local photographer George N. Barnard in 1854. Salina Street is ramped to bridge over the Erie Canal.

The First Baptist Church is seen in the background. Courtesy of the Onondaga Historical Association Johnathan Croyle | [email protected] Happy birthday, Syracuse! You are officially 200 years old.

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