Jordan, New York
| Jordan, New York | |
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| Village | |
Jordan Village Hall, December 2008
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 Location in Onondaga County and the state of New York. |
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| Coordinates: 43°4′N 76°28′W / 43.067°N 76.467°WCoordinates: 43°4′N 76°28′W / 43.067°N 76.467°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | New York |
| County | Onondaga |
| Town | Elbridge |
| Area | |
| • Total | 1.2 sq mi (3.0 km2) |
| • Land | 1.2 sq mi (3.0 km2) |
| • Water | 0.0 sq mi (0.0 km2) |
| Elevation | 413 ft (126 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 1,368 |
| Time zone | Eastern (EST) (UTC-5) |
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) |
| ZIP code | 13080 |
| Area code(s) | 315 |
| FIPS code | 36-38825 |
| GNIS feature ID | 0954196 |
| Website | www |
Jordan is a village in Onondaga County, New York, United States. The population was 1,368 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Syracuse Metropolitan Statistical Area. It was named from the Jordan River.
Jordan is located in the northwest part of the town of Elbridge, west of Syracuse.
The village bloomed with the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825. Due to the canal, Jordan became larger than Elbridge Village, farther south.
Jordan became an incorporated village in 1835.
In 1983, much of the village was included in the Jordan Village Historic District and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
On April 25, 1865, Abraham Lincoln's black-draped funeral train slowed for the crowd lining the New York Central Railroad tracks at the Erie Canal on the way west to Springfield, Illinois. As the train passed through, some men on furlough from the 3rd New York Artillery Division fired a cannon salute from the nearby canal. They had made arrangements with local farmer, Isaac C. Otis, whose "land straddled" Skaneateles Creek just north of the canal, to shoot at a large elm tree on the east side of the creek. Their aim was true, and a 6-pound (2.7 kg) cannonball hit the tree about 20 feet (6.1 m) off the ground, burying itself about 18-inch (460 mm) into the trunk. The tree, which was cut down in the 1930s, was referred to as the "cannonball tree" although no one knew the tale was true until the tree was chopped down and "there it was." The cannonball, about the size of a softball and still embedded in wood from the tree, is displayed at the Jordan Museum, a storehouse of artifacts kept in a room in the rear of the Bramley Library building.
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