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FREIGHT HOUSE

Program
NYS Historic
Subject
Transportation
Location
20 West Utica Street, Oswego, NY, USA
Lat/Long
43.4520453, -76.5105604
Grant Recipient
Heritage Foundation of Oswego County
Historic Marker

FREIGHT HOUSE

Inscription

FREIGHT HOUSE
BUILT CA. 1849 AS PART OF
FACILITIES SERVING OSWEGO
& SYRACUSE RAILROAD
THAT FIRST RAN DOWN
WEST UTICA STREET IN 1848.
WILLIAM G. POMEROY FOUNDATION 2019

The Oswego & Syracuse Railroad Company completed its rail line to Oswego in 1848. It was running freight to this location in 1849, probably the year this building was built. The line carried passengers and freight. Its railroad tracks are believed to have been removed in 1983.