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Program
NYS Historic
Subject
Site
Location
Rt. 91, north of present hamlet of Pompey Hill, Pompey, NY
Lat/Long
42.914687, -76.023606
Grant Recipient
Town of Pompey Historical Society
Historic Marker

LOG CITY

 

Inscription

LOG CITY
SITE OF LOG CITY - C. 1800
RIVAL OF POMPEY HILL
STORE, ASHERY, TANNERY,
SHOE & CARPENTER SHOPS
AND SCHOOLHOUSE
THE WILLIAM G. POMEROY FOUNDATION

According to an early history of Onondaga County, the first white settler in the hamlet of Log City, north of Pompey Hill on Jamesville Road, was Jacob Hoar, who moved from Onondaga in the spring of 1793. Log City and Pompey Hill were for a time rival settlements. Log City is said to have contained a schoolhouse, tannery, turning lathe, shoe shop, store and an ashery.

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