Text Source:
Syracuse and Its Environs, by
Franklin H. Chase, Lewis Historical Pub. Co., Chicago, IL, 1924, pg. 311
EARLY
AND LATE HOTELS.
They Made History, Too.
When there was but one mill, one store and one school house, which was
also used for a meeting house, with six dwellings mostly on stilts to
keep them up out of the mud of SYracuse, it is admitted that there were
two taverns. This was before 1820, when the name of Syracuse was
given. The "other tavern was the Travelers' Home on the road to
Salina, near where the Oswego Canal crossed in later years. That
site was used for inns, hotels and boarding houses for many
years. David Quinlan having a hotel there in the 'sixties.'
Syracuse's third inn was kept by J. T. Rhyne in West Genesee Street,
just west of where the Ritchie Block was afterward located, on the site
destined for a postoffice building.