1900 Map of Baldwinsville

Further south, the terrain rises toward Sorrel Hill and the manufacturing sites of Marcellus Falls along the banks of Nine Mile Creek. Smaller rural hamlets like Belgium, Jack Reef, and Little Utica are captured at their peak of nineteenth-century development. Significant water features such as Cross Lake and Mud Lake provide a clear view of the natural hydrology before modern drainage altered the Onondaga and Oswego county borderlands.