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Commemorating the 100th anniversary of a popular son of Oneida County who attained the office of Vice-President of the United States.


For many centuries, the waters of a creek now called Realls mingled with the mighty currents of a river now called Mohawk at a place where grew a city now called Utica.





In the spring of 1795 the Holland Land Company sent Gerritt Boon to settle its northern holdings. Boon, accompanied by Andrew Edmunds and his family, erected a sawmill on Mill Creek.

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