A Day in the City

I had to go to Utica, NY, for an appointment last week. I try to snap photos of the streets I see when I am there. It’s an interesting city and has seen a lot of ups and downs in its long history.

This photo is facing northward, on Genesee Street.

The Hotel Utica, built in 1912 and restored in the mid 1990s, is on the National Register of Historic Places. It is very beautiful inside.

Utica is in the geographic center of New York, in the Mohawk Valley, between Syracuse and Albany. From what I can gather, the first settlers arrived on the site in 1773. A fort was built here in 1758, Fort Schuyler. I wrote an extensive post about the history of Utica with some nice photos, you can read it here if you wish.

This is looking south on the same street (Genesee).

Charlotte Street in Utica. The county and state office buildings are all located in this vicinity, so the traffic is quite heavy for a small city.

Bleeker and Genesee Streets, below.

A lot of the street names in Utica are named after famous Uticans. Upstate New York has given us many great ministers, statesmen, artists, historians, and others; many of these people are buried in the city cemetery. I visited the Forest Hill cemetery over the summer. You can read about that here and here if you’d like. Finally, if you’d like to know more about Utica, we’ve visited just about every place in the city (the zoo, historic sites, parks, museums)! Use the search feature in my sidebar to find more.

Horatio Seymour Gravesite, Utica, NY

We took a short drive to Forest Hill Cemetery in Utica, NY. I am continuing my research into the Oneida Stone of the Oneida Indian Nation. The stone used to rest at the cemetery. I have all sorts of information and photos to share, but I am still compiling everything. I hope to have all the juicy details posted this week.

For now, I leave you with a sneak peek of a famous burial site– that of Governor Horatio Seymour. He served as New York’s governor twice, in 1852 and 1862.

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This area is so rich in history that it literally drips! I can’t wait to get it all up for you!