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Syracuse and Onondaga Railroad

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 27, 2025
Entity authoritySource title only
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The Syracuse and Onondaga Railroad was chartered in Syracuse, New York, on May 13, 1836, and was granted approval by the State to build a road from Syracuse to local quarries in Split Rock, New York.

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This entry incorporates text from “Syracuse and Onondaga Railroad” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.