Place:Canastota, Madison, New York, United States

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NameCanastota
TypeVillage
Coordinates43.081°N 75.754°W
Located inMadison, New York, United States
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Canastota is a village located inside the Town of Lenox in Madison County, New York, United States. The population was 4,804 at the 2010 census.

The village of Canastota is in the southern part of the Town of Lenox. Canastota High School is located in the village.

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History

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Kniste Stota was the historic name of the village, a term used by the local Oneida Nation of the Iroquois Confederacy, meaning "cluster of pines near still waters". The village recently celebrated the bicentennial of its settlement by European-Americans.

One early historic property is the Judge Nathan S. Roberts House, which dates to about 1820.


Canastota is well known as an onion-growing town, and that effort used to account for a large portion of the income in the village.

The village was incorporated in 1835, but was reorganized in 1870. Located along the banks of the Erie Canal, which was completed through the Mohawk River valley by 1825, Canastota was a vibrant trading and commercial town during the mid-nineteenth century for a wide agricultural area. When the canal was superseded by the construction of railroads, and later the New York Thruway, some canal towns were cut off from the main lines of commerce. During the 1850s, Charles Spencer became famous for constructing some of the best compound microscopes in the world, and Canastota became known as a "microscopic Mecca" despite its rural location. Robert Tolles, whose lenses later allowed observers to plumb the limits of light microscopy, studied with Spencer in Canastota and later partnered with him.

Canastota is the namesake of Canistota, South Dakota.

Canastota has produced two world boxing champions, Carmen Basilio and Billy Backus, and is the home of the International Boxing Hall of Fame. The museum is located next to exit 34 of the New York State Thruway. Each second weekend in June, Canastota has hosted numerous past and current champions, including Muhammad Ali, George Foreman and Joe Frazier. A Sunday parade and an induction ceremony are held to honor past and current Hall of Fame inductees.

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