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Title: Routes and rates for summer tours ... 1888
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg railroad company. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: (New York, Giles litho. and Liberty printing company)
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nty thousand volumes, and important manu-facturing interests. The commerce with foreign countries is very heavy, the imports and ex-ports aggregating six to eight millions of dollars annually. Oswego is the diverging point of the New York, Ontario & Western Railway, and the Del-aware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad. The former connects with the Syracuse Division ofthe Rome, Watertown & Ogdensburg Railroad at Central Square. Beyond Central Square, theNew York, Ontario & Western Railway continues southward, skirting the eastern shore ofOneida Lake, passing North Bay and Fish Creek—popular summer resorts—and finally termin-ating at New York. At Oswego connection is made with the Phoenix Line of the R., W. & O. Railroad, which isthe popular route between Syracuse and Oswego via Phoenix and Fulton. New Haven, eleven miles from Oswego and one mile and a-half from Lake Ontario, affordsfine opportunities for black bass fishing. ROME, WATERTOWN AND OGDEN SBUTtG JiAILROAD
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R., W. & O. R.R.—LAKE BEACH, SEA BREEZE AND NEWPORT HOUSE, IRONDEQUOIT BAY. 20 ROME, WATERTOWN AND OGDENSBURG RAILROAD. Mexico Point, four miles from Mexico station, is a much frequented resort, and offers ex-cellent bass fishing. Mexico Point and Port Ontario may also be reached by private conveyance from Sand Hillstation, five miles beyond Mexico. Syracuse is an enterprising city of 55,000 population. It is the chief salt depot of the con-tinent. Four trains daily (except Sundays) connect here with the New York Central & HudsonRiver Railroad, West Shore Railroad, Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, and the Syra-cuse, Ontario & New York Railway from all points east, west and south, to the ThousandIslands, St. Lawrence River, White Mountains and beyond; also to and from Oswego by thePhoenix Line. At Brevverton, fifteen miles from Syracuse, excursion trains connect with steamers forFrenchmans Island and South Bay, popular resorts five miles distant on beautiful O

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