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around oswego
with around oswego readers are invited to experience satisfying glimpses of over one hundred years of history and change . active as a busy commercial port city in the 1880s oswego would redefine itself as a recreation and tourist destination by the 1980s . this evolution is witnessed through text and pictures as factories br textile mills lumber docks coal trestles and br schooners were replaced with pleasure boats marinas hotels restaurants and parks . familiar as well as rare and previously unpublished images document changes in the local landscape . readers will meet some of oswegos citizens from international industrialist thomas kingford and medal of honor recipient and reformer dr. mary e. walker to soldiers and factory workers . celebrate the opening of a turn of the century playground watch a circus parade and enjoy a quiet picnic scene on a since vanished shore line . discover the outside worlds interest in oswego with photographs from united nations week in june 1943 and the br world war ii refugee center at fort ontario .