Jamesville, New York | |
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  Jamesville, New York Location within the state of New York | |
| Coordinates:42°59′31″N76°4′18″W / 42.99194°N 76.07167°W /42.99194; -76.07167 | |
| Country | United States |
| State | New York |
| County | Onondaga |
| Time zone | UTC-5 (Eastern (EST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-4 (EDT) |
| ZIP code | 13078[1] |
| Area codes | 315 and 680 |
Jamesville is ahamlet made up of the outskirts of five towns:DeWitt,LaFayette,Manlius,Pompey andOnondaga. Jamesville is located inOnondaga County,New York, United States, part of the greaterSyracuse area.
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The hamlet was named for early European-American settler James DeWitt.[2] It was settled in the early Federal period after the American Revolutionary War, when the Iroquois tribes had been forced to cede their lands in New York to the United States.
TheDr. John Ives House,Saint Mark's Church, andSouthwood Two-Teacher School are listed on theNational Register of Historic Places.[3]
On January 16, 2007, aNew York City company, Empire Synfuel LLC, submitted an application for site plan approval for a proposedcoal gasification plant in Jamesville. It was to take over the site where the now abandoned Alpha Portland Cement factory once operated. The plant, projected to cost $1.3 billion and create up to 150 jobs, would have converted coal into synthetic natural gas.
The proposal faced opposition from area residents and town board members, who were concerned about such environmental issues as the proximity of the village's elementary school.[4]
In addition,environmentalists opposed the plant because its releases ofcarbon dioxide would contribute toglobal warming.[5]
The project was proposed at another site 40 mi (64 km) north, in theTown of Scriba.[6] According to theSierra Club, the second proposal was also defeated.[7]
TheJamesville Reservoir is south of the hamlet.Jamesville Beach Park, acounty park, includes a small beach on the reservoir, several hiking trails and fields. The fields are the site of the annual Jamesville BalloonFest, where dozens of hot-air balloons take to the air in one weekend. Both the reservoir and park are in the Town ofLaFayette, New York, a larger jurisdiction that encompasses Jamesville.
The history of the community is documented in the bookWater, Wheels and Stone: Heritage of the Little Village by the Creek, Jamesville, New York, written by Jean Schutz Keough, and published in 1976 and 1978 by the Jamesville Historical Book Committee.
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| Footnotes | ‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties | |
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