Show fort ste marie de near syracuse new york is a reproduction of the fort erected by settlers in 1656 it contains exhibits of french indian and colonial relics hub city with a population ot of over syracuse is the fourth largest city in the state long before tjitte hite men came to america the onondaga indians had bad a village where syracuse now stands it was the ancient capital ot of the league and the tha onondaga tribe was the keeper of 0 the council tire fire ot of the long house the league has long since been broken the six nations scattered but this is still the capital the hereditary chief ot of the six nations has always been and still is an onondaga and the onondagas Onon dagas still live on oil their tribal reservation just south ot of the city it was the french who first showed an interest in settling here in 1654 one of their jesuit mission jr abes batker simon lemoyne came this way and was shown a 8 salt spring by his indian guides Tb the french eFrench who were out to wean nean the from the english and get the fur trade into french hands thought this would be a good spot tor for a trading post so in 1656 they built a post called fort sainte marie de by most ns this is usually shortened to the french fort after two to years the settlers were in trouble with their indian landlords word reached the fort that the rent was going to be collected in scalps when they heard this bad news the settlers staged a party to which they invited the local redskins red skins next day while their guests were sleeping it off the french piled their belongings in canoes and lit out for canada arid and that was the end of the french colony it if you go out the onon daga parkway you can see a reproduction of the fort nearby is a salt spring which is supposed to be the very one that was discovered by father lemoyne the french mission arys name is perpetuated today by the le moyne college a jesuit institution nothing much happened in the syracuse neighborhood after that until the If revolution evolution had been won then things began to hum salt was Rs the stuff that made the wheels go round it turned out that the jesuit spring was just a sample there were tons of the stuff around all you had to do was pump up brine let it evaporate in the sun and you had suit salt for 70 years starting around 1797 salt was big business and syracuse was the salt city for many years this was the only place lit in america where salt was produced commercially business boomed until the civil war after that new deposits were found in canada and Alic michigan higan and syracuse nesses in syracuse today the big solvay process plant Is on onondaga lake at the end opposite the parkway the parkway end which is the local yachting center was I 1 the lie scene this year ot of the intercollegiate rowing regatta leg alta it if you are interested in typewriters wiit ers candles china agricultural implements mincemeat mince meat shoes electrical hardware washing machines gasoline engines clothes pressing machines air conditioning furnaces or lanterns you can get them here fiere syracuse makes them all the editorial group was guests of the general electric company at the electronics plant just outside syracuse following luncheon we watched them assemble television sets from the very begin ninar to the packing and shipping 1 later in general electrics audi borlum we had a firsthand first hand band view of color television and other demonstrations if you care to stop over you can get an education in syracuse too schools at syracuse university will undertake to teach you fine arts citizenship and public affairs extension teaching and adult education medicine forestry home economics speech and dramatic art journalism syracuse found ed in 1870 has a student body of about and a faculty of 1400 the evening of june 25 gewere we were guests at dinner at syracuse university ver sity |