Your Guide to Buying a Home in Geddes, NY

Buying a Home in Geddes, New York

Geddes is located in Onondaga County

Geddes had its name from its noted citizen James Geddes, who visited Onondaga in 1793, and came there permanently in April, 1794, having formed a company to make salt.  The others came in June.  The Indian claims were soon arranged, but the Salt Point people were not friendly.  However, a road was carried across the marsh from the works on the western side to the road from Onondaga Hollow to Salt Point.  He lived near the lake for four years, and then settled on his land in Camillus for life.  There was a reason for this.  He married a Highland lassie, Miss Lucy Jerome of Fabius in 1799, and did not propose to bury her in lowland marshes.  He had been thinking that, as a good citizen, he ought to marry.  In this receptive state of mind he was among the southern hills surveying land.  Suddenly he saw a vision.  A fair girl stood on a stump, in a graceful attitude, blowing a dinner horn.  Presumably she invited him to a dinner prepared by her own fair hands, and men's hearts lie very close to another vital organ.  Anyway it was love at first sight, a wise love, too.

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