Positioned at the confluence of the east and west branches of the Tioughnioga River, Port Watson was full of promise.

In 1889, the college that would become SUNY Cortland graduated its first African-American student, Abraham Lincoln DeMond.

The timeline is a multimedia project that will have its own web page ,separate from the College’s, scheduled to be activated in July 2018.

The conference is bringing dozens of SUNY history faculty from all over the state.

Editor’s Note: This is the second installment in our ongoing series chronicling the rich history of Cortland County.  Many thanks to the Cortland County Historical Society, who ...