Griffiss Air Force Base is a former United States Air Force installation in the northeastern United States, located in Central New York state at Rome, about fifteen miles (25 km) northwest of Utica.
ANG personnel concentrate on the air defense mission at the Eastern Air Defense Sector.
2 May 1997 (closed 1995)
49th FIS Convair F-106A Delta Dart, AF Ser. No. 59-0076, in Bicentennial markings, 1976
27th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron Lockheed F-94C Starfire, AF Ser. No. 51-13555, circa 1955
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. Rome is in New York's 22nd congressional district.
Oneida County Courthouse
View of the stockade and Fort Stanwix reconstruction completed in 1976 (based on 1758 and 1776 structures)
Rome railroad station