Schroeppel City Historical Markers

Later Plank Road. Passed through Roosevelt Hamlet, founded by Nicholas J. Roosevelt... [click for more]

Site of British Camp - Sir Jeffery Amherst with Ten Thousand Troops was here 1760 Enroute to Canada to Crush French Power in America... [click for more]

Founder of Town of Schroeppel, Owner of Twenty Thousand Acres, died 1825.... [click for more]

Site of First Log Cabin - Abram Paddock known to Indian as Bear Hunter Paddock, Site of First White Settler in Schroeppel, built his Cabin here 1801... [click for more]

First in Town of Schroeppel built here at Gilbert's Mills by Andrus and Hiram Gilbert in 1819... [click for more]

Lock No. 1 Located Near here. Lock Tender's House Nearby. Old Oswego Canal completed 1828. Important Waterway to West.... [click for more]

Indian Fishing Village 1654 known to the Indians as Place of Tall Pines Discovered by Father Le Moyne... [click for more]

Pennell Saw Mill built here by Dr. Richard Pennell in 1833... [click for more]

Site of Salt Well - Well Sunk 340 Feet in 1864 by Capt. E.s. Cook Resulted in Strong Salt Brine. Six Kettles were built Into an Arch for Manufacturing... [click for more]

Site of Toll Gate - Schroeppel was Held here at Home of James B. Richardson in 1833... [click for more]

Stockaded Fort 1758-1759 about 60 Feet Square Containing 3 Storehouses built by Colony of N. Y.... [click for more]

Site of Toll Gate - Plank Road built 1855 Connected Phoenix with Pennellville. Road Five Miles in Length.... [click for more]

First Town Meeting in Schroeppel was Held here at Home of James B. Richardson in 1833... [click for more]

French Colonists Camped on Island in Escaping from Onondaga Indians in 1658. Said to Have Lightened Their War Chests and Deposited Cannon and Gold Her... [click for more]