Tipperary Hill
Coordinates: 43°02′48″N 76°11′08″W / 43.046546°N 76.185572°W
Tipperary Hill, also known as Tipp Hill, is a district in the city of Syracuse, New York, largely settled by immigrants from Ireland, especially from County Tipperary. It makes up half of Syracuse's Far Westside neighborhood.
When the neighborhood of Far Westside was originally populated, it was by people of English descent. They named their streets after famous English poets—Lowell, Milton, Whittier, Bryant, Coleridge, and Tennyson—as well as common English fruits and nuts such as quince, chestnut, and filbert.
In the 1820s, when the Erie Canal was built from Albany to Buffalo, the Irish were the chief laborers. Located in the middle of the route, Syracuse was considered the hub of the system. After the canal was finished, many Irish people settled west of Syracuse on a hill overlooking the canal. This area became known as Tipperary Hill. The Irish laborers gravitated to the hill on the Far Westside of Syracuse beginning in the mid 19th century. They settled in the south of the old village of Geddes before it was annexed into the city. The hill overlooks what was later called "Automobile row", where industries like the Franklin Automobile Company and Onondaga Pottery were located. Workers would walk down from the hill to work each day at factories east of Tipperary Hill that lined Geddes, Fayette, Marcellus, and Oswego streets on the city's Near Westside. To the north, Solvay Process Company provided jobs in the manufacture of soda ash on the shores of Onondaga Lake. Many Irish were also employed in the local salt mills on the North side of Geddes.
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