A history of Canastota,
since 1835
Postcards, papers and photographs of Canastota from public archives, woven together by decade. Neighbors fill in the gaps.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Kniste Stota was the historic name of Canastota, a term used by the local Oneida people, meaning "cluster of pines near still waters".
The area that makes up Canastota was once inhabited by people of the Oneida Nation, a member of the Haudenosanee confederacy. The Nation's homelands before European settlement of central New York consisted of more than six million acres from the St. Lawrence River to the Susquehanna River.
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowFinish Canastota’s story
Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.
2 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewCanastota (Village); Clockville (…, 1875: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Canastota
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Canastota, decade by decade
1990s
Nothing in Canastota is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Canastota has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is House at 313 North Main Street in Lenox, 0 miles away.
Canastota and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Canastota (Village); Clockville (Village); Lenox Furnace (Village); Wampsville (Village); Lenox (Village); Merrilisvill… (1875) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (6). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.