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The original township of Cicero, named after the great Roman orator Marcus Tullius Cicero, included both the towns of Cicero and Clay. It was part of the great military tract that was surveyed in 1790 into 100 lots, each containing about 600 acres. These lots were reserved or drawn by soldiers for services in the Revolutionary War. The only soldier to become an actual resident in the Town of Cicero was Captain John Shepard. In 1827 the township was divided with the Town of Cicero having 50 lots – about 29,000 acres of land.

The present Route 11 was for many years a series of Indian trails north and south through Cicero from Pennsylvania to the Thousand Islands. Part of it was called the Salt Road in 1812. In 1846 the first toll plan road in the United States was built. It was 16.5 miles long and went from Central Square to Syracuse right through Cicero. The stage was the only means of transportation until replaced by the trolley line built in 1909. The trolley to South Bay brought prosperity to the area around Oneida Lake, and the hotel business flourished. Regular excursion boats met the trolley for trips around the lake. Frenchman’s Island was a popular vacation spot. The trolley was used until 1932. The tracks were torn up and South Bay Road built over the same route.

Today, Cicero is not only the fastest growing town in Central New York, but it is within minutes of many transportation and recreation facilities. Syracuse International Airport is less than ten minutes away from Cicero. Bus and train service is a short twenty minutes away. Shoppers can enjoy many local stores and other businesses that are also short trips from home. Additionally, Cicero is located within 350 miles of all major cities in the Northeast.

One of the draws of Cicero is the great schools here as part of the North Syracuse Central School District. The district gets consistently high marks for its commitment to ensuring that all students achieve success through relevant and rigorous schoolwork preparing them for life-long learning and full participation in our society while empowering them with the knowledge, skills and attitudes valued by the students and society at large.

Over 80 percent of Onondaga County's high school graduates go on to attend post-secondary educational institutions. In upstate New York, there are an abundance of great institutions of higher learning within an easy drive, but right near Cicero, Syracuse University is one of the nation's most highly regarded private colleges, offering a diverse portfolio of undergraduate and graduate degrees to its 18,200 students. Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and Newhouse School of Communications are consistently ranked as the country's best schools of public administration and journalism, respectively.

Residents of Cicero enjoy taking full advantage of their location in Onondaga County and all that it has to offer. The Syracuse Symphony Orchestra serves the entire central and northern New York region. With a 38-week session and 67 full-time professional musicians on contract, the orchestra offers classical and popular music concerts, ensemble programs, family series and educational activities.

Syracuse Stage produces and performs both classical and modern plays with professional actors. It maintains a close working relationship with Syracuse University's drama department. Its Arts-In-Education Program in county schools seeks to develop young audiences and addresses problems of literacy, problem solving and cultural diversity in the community. The season of six main plays runs from September through May. Syracuse Stage is one of sixteen regional and community theater groups in the area.

The Syracuse Opera Company provides three stage productions each year. The Syracuse opera ensemble presents 100 educational performances throughout the region each year. Syracuse Jazzfest is the Northeast's largest free jazz festival, attracting 80,000 music fans during its seven day run in downtown Syracuse. The Festival features internationally and nationally known jazz artists including Ray Charles and Winton Marsalis as well as regional and local performers.

For sports fans, there is also plenty to see. Alliance Bank Stadium is home to the Syracuse SkyChiefs, the AAA affiliate of the Toronto Blue Jays. The Stadium has been called the finest minor league baseball facility in the country, combining modern amenities for athletes and fans with old-fashioned brick facade architecture. Designed by HOK- the architects of Camden Yards in Baltimore, Coors Field in Denver and Jacobs Field in Cleveland - Alliance Bank Stadium is designed to serve as a multi-purpose facility for a variety of area sporting and entertainment events. The Syracuse Crunch, the top minor league affiliate of the Columbus Blue Jackets, play exciting professional hockey back in the 6,230-seat Onondaga County War Memorial, renovated as part of the development of the OnCenter Complex.

Syracuse University sports provide the area with nationally ranked men's and women's collegiate athletics. The 50,000-seat Carrier Dome, America's only on-campus domed stadium, is the home of Syracuse University football, basketball, track and lacrosse. The Syracuse University lacrosse program is a perennial powerhouse; its football and basketball programs are consistently ranked among the top 20 teams in the country. In addition to Syracuse University sports, the Carrier Dome is the venue for Central New York's major concert events. The dome hosted the NCAA Men's Basketball Regional Championships in 2000, 2002 and 2005.

Of course, with such natural beauty in this part of the state, many prefer the outdoors as a playground. Onondaga County Parks provide recreational, cultural, educational, and environmental opportunities in a 6,500-acre system. The “Parks for Tomorrow” is an infrastructure program charged with improving the condition of Onondaga County Parks for all generations. The infrastructure program offers a comprehensive program to fix and improve aspects of the parks system that are in major need of repair. It will remedy features and conditions that over the years have slipped or things that through no one’s fault, have just reached the end of their life expectancy. The Onondaga County Parks Department will take care of important needs for today’s visitors and through the completion of this program it will have made the Parks System a better physical entity than what it is currently. In all, the county parks system provides the community with a nature center, beaches, forested areas and natural feature parks, a centrally located multi-use park with intensive recreational opportunities, a marina, athletic fields, fish hatchery, and other historic facilities.

The County-owned Rosamond Gifford Zoo at Burnet Park was featured on the Discovery Channel's Ultimate Guide to Elephants. The Zoo was selected for this documentary based on the high quality of its programs. The Zoo's Asian elephant exhibit is among its most widely recognized, particularly in light of the birth of four Asian elephants since 1991. The Zoo added several new attractions- the Amur (Siberian tigers), lion cubs, red pandas and Rainforest Exhibit. An Antiquity Cave has examples of animals that existed over 600 million years ago, and the Diversity Exhibit houses colorful birds in a lush tropical setting. In 2005, the Zoo added 19 Humboldt Penguins to its exhibits featured in a 50,000 - gallon pool with six different windows to view the penguins swimming and playing underwater and on land.