A little history on the Three Rivers area from my webpage on Immanuel Church at Dutch Settlement (http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mstone/immanuel.html): "The Township of Clay, established in 1827, is the largest (54.6 square miles) and northernmost township of the 19 in Onondaga County today. Its area includes the Village of Clay (on route 31 between Baldwinsville and Bridgeport) and part of the Village of North Syracuse. The Oneida River forms most of its northern boundary and the Seneca River forms its western boundary, meeting with the Oswego and Oneida Rivers at a point known as Three Rivers, long a favored fishing and picnicking spot. "Before the arrival of white settlers the Three Rivers area was the site of numerous Indian councils and served as the center of the Iroquois Confederacy. Oak Orchard Reefs and Caughdenoy Reefs had been fishing and fording areas used by the Iroquois. Legend tells of a massacre of the Indians by the French or English at Oak Orchard, where a large Indian burial site was located. "Settlers in significant numbers, drawn by the natural springs there, began to arrive in the area following the Revolutionary War. Among them was a distinct population: the children and grandchildren of refugees from the part of Germany known as the Pfalz (or, in English, the Palatinate--see map), whose families had emigrated through England in 1709 and 1710 to the Hudson Valley and then to the Schoharie Valley (more history). These hardy pioneers eventually made their way in the early 1800’s to today’s Clay Township and gathered in what became known locally as the "Dutch [i.e. Deutsch] Settlement" because of the prevalence of German language and customs there. It was said (by Rev. John W. Kisselburgh, Clay town historian) to be the only Palatine community in this area of Central New York." The Arion Club (I've been told) was a singing society in Syracuse, but I don't know what dates it operated. I saw the Arion Club Building, still with the sign outside (and in use? but closed) in downtown Syracuse when I visited there in 1994, though. Similar to the Liederkranz and the Saengerbund (Syracuse German singing societies); I know there were some Germans who were in the Arion Club, but I am not sure whether or not it was exclusively or historically German. Michelle Stone "German Immigrants in Syracuse & Onondaga Co., NY" http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mstone/ Mary D. Taffet wrote: > OK, there is actually a small village called Three Rivers; it's even on > the map at Mapquest. It's near Route 57 between Moyer's Corners and > Phoenix. > > -- Mary > > > Eric Schultz wrote: > >> The Wooden Whistle Club/The Arian Jolly Bunch >> >> In 1906 my great grandfather painted two glasses for my great grandmother, >> they would be married three years later. The first glass commemorates a >> meeting of the Wooden Whistle Club at Three Rivers...