Join the Erie Canal Museum and Onondaga Historical Association for a day-long bus tour to Rochester, exploring the city's rich past. The bus leaves the Erie Canal Museum in Downtown Syracuse at 9am and first arrives at Mt. Hope Cemetery. There, guests will be treated to an hour and a half long tour highlighting some of the cemeteries' more well known graves like those of Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony, as well as lesser known internments related to the Erie Canal and Syracuse, plus guests can learn more about Mt. Hope's critical connection to the history of landscape architecture and horticulture. All guests on the trip will receive a boxed lunch from the Syracuse Cooperative Market, which can be enjoyed between Mt. Hope Cemetery and the tour's next destination: the Susan B. Anthony Museum & House. Guests will then have an opportunity to tour Susan B. Anthony's residence for the last 40 years of her life as well as take a walking tour of the surrounding historic neighborhood. Following this, the bus will return to Syracuse by 5pm.
Itinerary
8:30am-9am- Loading bus at Erie Canal Museum (318 Erie Blvd E, Syracuse, NY 13202)
9am-10:30am- Transit from Syracuse to Mt. Hope Cemetery
10:30am-12pm- Walking tour of Mt. Hope Cemetery.
12pm-1pm- Lunch & transit from Mt. Hope Cemetery to Susan B. Anthony Museum & House
1pm-3pm- Tour of Susan B. Anthony Museum & House and walking tour of Susan B. Anthony Historic District
3pm-4:30pm- Transit from Rochester to Syracuse
Accessibility
Mt. Hope Cemetery- Walking tour of 1.25 miles with some slight hills, numerous opportunities to rest. We will have headsets available to better hear speakers if needed.
Susan B. Anthony Museum & House- The House tour covers all three floors of the House, with two staircases guests will go up and down during the tour. For anyone who wishes to skip the stairs, the Museum offers a downstairs tour of the House and complete the 2nd and 3rd floors via a 360-degree virtual Matterport tour so that guests can still see and learn about every room upstairs. There are modern chairs to sit on throughout the House for guests wishing to have a seat. For any visitors who are deaf or hard of hearing, the SBAMH has recently partnered with an app called SignSpeak, which allows visitors to access an avatar that will sign what the tour guide is saying in real time, provide a live text transcript of what's being said, and give guests the ability to sign their questions to the avatar to be read out loud to the tour guide. Accommodations are available for blind guests and guests with low-vision as well. The walking tour goes around the neighborhood of the House along the sidewalks and crosses a few residential streets as needed. There will be one stop at Madison Square Park where there are benches to rest on as well. Some sidewalks are a bit bumpy, but everything is relatively flat.
Lunch Options
Lunch is a sandwich, chips, and fruit or a cookie
Sandwich options are:
Chipotle Chicken: Chicken breast marinated in chipotle seasoning, sliced peppers, lettuce, and house-made chipotle sauce.
Tofurky (Vegan): Tofurky, sliced pickles, red onion, lettuce, and house-made vegan sammie sauce (garlic tomato oil Vegenaise).
Matts (Vegetarian): Adam's Reserve cheddar cheese, red onion, sliced pickles, lettuce, and house-made sammie sauce.
Buff Tempeh (Vegan): Tempeh marinated in Frank's Red Hot, cabbage carrot slaw, and house-made buff sauce (vegan creamy blue cheese).
Cancelation Policy
You can cancel your reservation within 48 hours of the trip. For questions, help registering, or cancellations contact educator@eriecanalmuseum.org or call (315) 471-0593
