Place:De Witt, Onondaga, New York, United States

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NameDe Witt
Alt namesDeWittsource: Getty Vocabulary Program
TypeTown
Coordinates43.033°N 76.05°W
Located inOnondaga, New York, United States
Contained Places
Cemetery
Collamer Cemetery
DeWitt Cemetery
Walnut Grove Cemetery
White Chapel Memory Gardens
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DeWitt is a town in Onondaga County, New York, United States. As of the 2020 census, the town's population was 26,074. The town is named after Major Moses DeWitt, a judge and soldier. An eastern suburb of Syracuse, DeWitt also is "the site of most of the campus and all of the academic buildings of Le Moyne College".[1]

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DeWitt was part of the Central New York Military Tract. The first settlers arrived around 1789.

The original Erie Canal progressed through the town in 1825. DeWitt was formed in 1835 from the Town of Manlius and was named in honor of Moses DeWitt, a Major in the militia, judge of the county courts and one of the first settlers of the county.

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