In Depth
The big stories of Sodus Point’s history, told in depth. Each page gathers every story, place and person about one subject, with the accounts side by side.
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The Peregrine Fitzhugh Letters
Letters between Colonel Peregrine Fitzhugh, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, thought lost in an 1846 fire and found again in 2015.
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The Sodus Point POW Camp
Pine Camp, where about 135 German prisoners of war lived and worked on local farms and in canneries during World War II.
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The Underground Railroad in Sodus Point
Freedom seekers, the abolitionists who sheltered them and the schooners that carried them to Canada, and the story of a tunnel.
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The Battle of Sodus Point
The British attack on Sodus Point in June 1813, during the War of 1812: the accounts, the people and places, and how it is remembered.