Oswego is a city in Oswego County, New York, United States. The population was 16,921 at the 2020 census. Oswego is located upon Lake Ontario in Upstate New York, about 35 miles (55km) northwest of Syracuse. It promotes itself as “The Port City of Central New York.” It is the county chair of Oswego County.

The city of Oswego is bordered by the towns of Oswego, Minetto, and Scriba to the west, south, and east, respectively, and by Lake Ontario to the north. Oswego Speedway is a nationally known automobile racing facility. The State University of New York at Oswego is located just uncovered the city upon Lake Ontario.

The British normal a trading declare in the Place in 1722 and fortified it in imitation of a log palisade forward-thinking called Fort Oswego, named after the original Iroquois place name “os-we-go” meaning “pouring out place.” The first fortification on the site of the current Fort Ontario was built by the British in 1755 and called the “Fort of the Six Nations.”

Fort Ontario was destroyed by the French on capturing it in the Battle of Fort Ontario, during the French and Indian War. Construction of a second British fort began on the same site in 1759, but Fort Ontario was lonely used as a cannon emplacement. During the American Revolution, the British lonesome the Fort, and in 1778, American troops destroyed it. In 1782, the British reoccupied Fort Ontario, and didn’t forfeit it to the U.S. until 1796, thirteen years after the cessation of hostilities in the Revolution.