Syracuse, the second Greek colony in Sicily was founded by the Corinthians in 743 A.D and described by Cicero as ‘the greatest Greek city and the most beautiful of all’. Syracuse or ‘Pentapolis’ was ...

On July 22, 1850, downtown Syracuse became home to the newest weighlock building on the Erie Canal, one of the Central City’s most important and, today, iconic structures. The modest, two-story ...