Fort Rickey Discovery Zoo

Fort Rickey Discovery Zoo is a zoo in Town of Verona, Oneida, New York. Fort Rickey Discovery Zoo is situated near the hamlet Verona Mills, as well as near Lee.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights: Fort Bull.

Fort Bull

Ruins

Fort Bull was located at the Oneida Carry in British North America during the French and Indian War. On October 29, 1755 Governor William Shirley ordered Captain Mark Petrie to take the men under his command and to build a fort on the upper landing of Wood Creek to protect the Oneida Carry. Fort Bull is situated 2 miles east of Fort Rickey Discovery Zoo.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Verona Mills and Lee.

Verona Mills

Hamlet

Verona Mills is a hamlet in Oneida County, New York, United States. On April 26, 2011, a tornado with 100 mph winds associated with the 2011 Super Outbreak hit a wooded area near Verona Mills, near New York State Route 49, uprooting trees and snapping a power pole before replacing it. Verona Mills is situated 2 miles south of Fort Rickey Discovery Zoo.

Lee

Hamlet

Lee is a hamlet located in the Town of Lee in Oneida County, New York. Lee is situated 4 miles north of Fort Rickey Discovery Zoo.

Rome

Photo: Calvin Beale, Public domain.

Rome is a city in Oneida County, New York, United States, located in the central part of the state. The population was 32,127 at the 2020 census. Rome is one of two principal cities in the Utica–Rome Metropolitan Statistical Area, which lies in the "Leatherstocking Country" made famous by James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, set in frontier days before the American Revolutionary War.

Fort Rickey Discovery Zoo

Type: Zoo
Categories: tourism and tourist attraction
Location: Town of Verona, Oneida, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

43.22477° or 43° 13′ 29″ north

Longitude

-75.54619° or 75° 32′ 46″ west

Open location code

87M66FF3+WG

OpenStreetMap ID

way 442394837

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=zoo

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