Rome, New York
| Rome, New York | |
|---|---|
| City | |
| City of Rome | |
Oneida County Courthouse (1851)
|
|
| Motto: Center of It All | |
 Location within Oneida County and New York |
|
 Rome, New York
|
|
| Coordinates: 43°13′10″N 75°27′48″W / 43.21944°N 75.46333°WCoordinates: 43°13′10″N 75°27′48″W / 43.21944°N 75.46333°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | New York |
| County | Oneida |
| Incorporated | 1870 |
| Government | |
| • Type | Mayor-Council |
| • Mayor | Jacqueline M. Izzo (Republican) |
| • Common Council |
Members' List
|
| Area | |
| • Total | 75.7 sq mi (196.0 km2) |
| • Land | 74.9 sq mi (194.1 km2) |
| • Water | 0.8 sq mi (1.9 km2) 0.99% |
| Elevation | 456 ft (139 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 33,725 |
| • Density | 466.4/sq mi (180.1/km2) |
| Time zone | Eastern (EST) (UTC-5) |
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) |
| Area code(s) | 315 |
| FIPS code | 36-63418 |
| GNIS feature ID | 0962840 |
| Website | http://romenewyork.com/ |
Rome is a city in New York State. It is located in Oneida County, which is in north-central or Upstate New York. The population was 33,725 at the 2010 census. Rome is one of two principal cities in the Utica–Rome Metropolitan Statistical Area, which lies in the "" made famous by James Fenimore Cooper's , set in frontier days before the American Revolutionary War. Rome is in New York's 22nd congressional district.
The city developed at an ancient portage site of Native Americans, including the historic Iroquois. It continued to be strategically important to Europeans who also used the main 18th and 19th-century waterways, based on the Mohawk and Hudson rivers, that connected New York City and the Atlantic seaboard to the Great Lakes. The original European settlements developed around fortifications erected in the 1750s to defend the waterway, in particular the British Fort Stanwix (1763).
Following the war, the city began to develop with the construction of the Rome Canal in 1796, to connect Wood Creek (leading from Lake Ontario) and the Mohawk River. In the same year the Town of Rome was formally created as a section of Oneida County. For a time, the small community next to the canal was informally known as Lynchville, after the original owner of the property. The Town of Rome was converted into a city by the New York State Legislature on February 23, 1870. The residents have called Rome the City of American History.
Rome was founded along an ancient Native American portage path known as the Oneida Carrying Place, Deo-Wain-Sta, or The Great Carrying Place to the Six Nations (Iroquois) or Haudenosaunee people in their language. These names refer to a portage road or path between the Mohawk River to the east, which leads to the Hudson River; and Wood Creek to the west, which leads to Lake Ontario. Now located within the modern Rome city limits, this short portage path was the only overland section of a water trade route stretching more than 1,000 miles between Lake Ontario and the lower Hudson. Travelers and traders coming up the Mohawk River from the Hudson had to transfer their cargo and boats and transport them overland between 1.7 and six miles (depending on the season) to continue west on Wood Creek to Lake Ontario. This ancient trade route joined the Great Lakes and Canada via the Mohawk River to the Hudson River and the Atlantic Ocean.
...
Wikipedia