Today I want to share a very special place with you: Onondaga Lake. It’s a shallow, medium-sized body of water stretching 4.5 miles long and 1 mile wide, with a maximum depth of just over 60 feet. The Lake lives in the centre of Onondaga County — a settler jurisdiction named after the Onondaga Nation. The first 15 years of my life where spent never too far from this lake, whose complicated story speaks to the history of Syracuse as much as the entire United States.
A Brief (Personal) History of Onondaga Lake
A Brief (Personal) History of Onondaga Lake
A Brief (Personal) History of Onondaga Lake
Today I want to share a very special place with you: Onondaga Lake. It’s a shallow, medium-sized body of water stretching 4.5 miles long and 1 mile wide, with a maximum depth of just over 60 feet. The Lake lives in the centre of Onondaga County — a settler jurisdiction named after the Onondaga Nation. The first 15 years of my life where spent never too far from this lake, whose complicated story speaks to the history of Syracuse as much as the entire United States.