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Black Dirt Country North of Canastota

Canastota also is home to some back country and was at one time famous for onion growing but a lot of the black dirt country up here either was used up or converted to other crops. 

Illion

Illion

I always find driving the part of the Thruway around Illion to be the most fascinating. It's an interesting mix of geologies as you rise from the end of the Mohawk Valley into the Onieda Lake plains - the mucky farm country with many a swamp and arces of fertile black dirt.