During the summer of 1966 students from Syracuse University, Westhill, West Genesee and Marcellus High Schools participated in an excavation of a Native American settlement under the direction off Professor James Tuck of the Archeology Department at Syracuse University.
On October 25, 1968, a ground-breaking ceremony was held on to mark the beginning of construction of the OCC campus on Onondaga Hill. Did you know that the land that OCC now stands on was not originally where the College was located? Or that there was controversy on the location of where to build the campus?