In 1886, just before its union with Syracuse, Geddes village had four blacksmith shops, three boat liveries, one boiler manufactory, two shoe shops, bottling works, brewery, two brick yards, broom machine manufactory, one carpet weaver, two carriage shops, one casket manufacturer, china decorating company, clay pipe works, two clothiers, two coal yards, seven contractors and builders, two coopers, two dry goods stores, steel works, engine and boiler works, two florists, flour and feed store, fourteen groceries, two drug stores, iron foundry, agricultural implements works, four meat markets, two nurserymen, five physicians, two potteries, twenty-eight saloons, four tobacco dealers and a shirt factory. There was also a large blast furnace a little west of the village. Its population in 1880 was four thousand two hundred and eighty-three. This has greatly increased since it became part of the city.