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Jordan, New York

Jordan is a village in Onondaga County, New York, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 1,192. It is part of the Syracuse Metropolitan Statistical Area. It was named after the Jordan River.

Jordan is located in the northwest part of the town of Elbridge, west of Syracuse.

The village bloomed with the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825. Due to the canal, Jordan became larger than Elbridge Village farther south. In 1835, Jordan was incorporated as a village.

In 1983, much of the village was included in the Jordan Village Historic District and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

When the Erie Canal opened in October 1825, the original route went through the middle of Jordan, along what is today Clinton and Mechanic streets, with the original lock being Lock 59 (located near the current post office).

When the Canal was expanded, straightened, and widened in the 1840s, the path of the Canal migrated to the north slightly. Lock 59 was removed with Lock 51, built to about 1 mile west of the village, replacing it. A four-arched Aqueduct was built to allow the Canal to cross over Skaneateles Creek.

The section of Canal that went through Jordan was closed in 1918 with the opening of the New York State Barge Canal that bypassed Jordan, using the natural waterway of the Seneca River north of the Village.

Today, much of the expanded Canal's stonework is visible, with its path having been turned into a park in the middle of the Village.

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