Oswego, New York (Erie Canal Lock 23 and Oswego Canal Locks 1 - 8)

We travel 28.5 NM today heading west through one more Erie Canal lock then turned north up the Oswego Canal through Locks 1 - 8 (however, there is no Lock 4).  We walked to and toured Fort Ontario. We are docked at Oswego Marina at the mouth of the Great Lake Ontario.

Total travel to date = 1,422.4 NM

Fort Ontario is built on the ruins of three earlier fortifications dating to the French and Indian War, Revolutionary War, and War of 1812.  It was occupied by the U.S. Army through World War II.  From 1944 to 1946 the fort served as the only refugee camp in the United States for mostly Jewish victims of the Nazi Holocaust under an Executive Order from President Franklin D. Roosevelt.  A post cemetery containing the graves of 77 officers, soldiers, women, and children who served at Fort Ontario in war and peace is situated on the grounds.

http://www.revolutionaryday.com/nyroute5/ftontario/

Photo taken in 1870 of Soldiers

Photo taken in same spot in 2015 of us!