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Article: NEW ROOTS BEYOND THE OLD COUNTRY; IN AN INCREASINGLY DIVERSE CENTRAL NEW YORK, MORE PEOPLE ARE SIMPLY "AMERICAN".(Local)
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- The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
- Article date:
- November 24, 2002
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Byline: John Doherty Staff writer
The tiny town of Amboy is the most American community in Central New York - just ask the people who live there.
More residents of the town, tucked in the southeastern corner of Oswego County along Oneida Lake, consider themselves to be American by ancestry than in any other place in the area, according to the 2000 U.S. Census.
Almost 16 percent of Amboy's 1,312 people count themselves as American by blood; that ranks 25th among New York's towns.
"I'll have to put that into the history books," said Amboy town historian Lucille Dunn. She surmised the town's long history and remoteness may be the reason ...