Place:Tully, Onondaga, New York, United States

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Tully is a town in Onondaga County, New York, United States. The population of the town was 951 at the 2019 census. The name of the town is derived from the Roman orator Marcus Tullius Cicero. The town is on the county's southern border, south of Syracuse.

History

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Tully was within the former Central New York Military Tract, an area which the federal government reserved to use for granting plots of land as bounty and pay to soldiers and veterans for their service during the American Revolution. The surveyors were responsible for naming the areas. One of the assistant surveyors, being a classical scholar and professor at Kings College (Columbia), assigned names from Roman generals and statesmen, and Greek men of letters. Tully is derived from the middle name of Marcus Tullius Cicero.

This area had been occupied for centuries by the Onondaga people, one of the first Five Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy, or Haudenosaunee. As four of the six nations were allied with the British during the American Revolutionary War, the Onondaga and others were forced to cede their land to the United States after the war. Much was sold and granted to settlers and speculators, and European Americans began to flood into western New York.

The first European-American settler was Andy Tucker, who built a log cabin in 1795. The first town meeting was held on April 4, 1803, when the town was formed from part of the Town of Fabius. The Town of Otisco was partially formed from part of Tully in 1806. When Cortland County was established in 1808, Tully lost its southern parts to the Towns of Preble and Scott in the new county. In 1811, more land was taken from Tully to form the Town of Spafford.

In the late 19th century, the town began to attract more tourists, especially during the summer. Tully Lake Park was developed and the first cottage and a part of the hotel were erected on Tully Lake in 1889. Other cottages and villas were built so that fifty occupied sites by the end of the century. In 1892 the Central New York Assembly established Assembly Park on the east side of the lake. It became the site for annual sessions of an educational nature, similar to those at the celebrated Chautauqua, New York, which is situated on the lake of that name.

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