Excerpt from A History of the Schools of Syracuse From Its Early Settlement to January 1, 1893 Schools were taught at an early date, without doubt, in private houses at what was known as Salt Point, now the First Ward of the city, and one Capt. Connor kept school in a salt block, where he divided his time between teaching and salt boiling. The Onondaga Centennial Almanac, published in 1886, savs this was about 1797. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.