Exploring
200 Years of Oneida County History - Price:$19.95
Published in Oneida County's Bicentennial year,
this accounting of 200 years of history has a long pedigree. At least five
different volumes of Oneida County histories precede this one. Pomroy Jones
started it off in 1851 with Annals and Recollections of Oneida County.
Samuel Durant followed with his county
history in 1878. Daniel Wager in 1896 published Our County and It's People.
Then Henry H. Cookinham wrote a county history covering 1700 to 1912. And
finally Virginia Kelly, with a committee of active local historians produced
a comprehensive county history in 1977.
We owe a great deal to each of these earlier efforts. However, there is a new reality in these pages about what has been occurring, over 200 years, and where it all might be taking us. For that we are indebted to the contributing authors.