It was a place where people stopped after fishing on Oneida Lake.
It's less than a mile from Oneida Lake and is currently undergoing an expansion project.
The company built a road from the center of the city of Syracuse northeast to Oneida Lake.
Oneida Lake provided their principle means of transportation.
Indigenous peoples had occupied areas around Oneida Lake for thousands of years.
Oneida Lake is the northern border with part of Oswego County on the opposite shore.
Now towns along the shoreline of Oneida Lake again had access to navigable waterways east and west.
From 1900 to 1970, a region near the southeast shore of Oneida Lake was "the onion capital of the world".
The town is north north west of Oneida Lake.
In recent years, Brewerton has become a major port for fishing on the already popular Oneida Lake.