It is a community in the Town of Vienna, on the northeastern corner of Oneida Lake, near the border of Oswego County.
In the past it was a thriving community with a store, hotel, mills, boat-building and lumber industries.
A small community Church stands in the center as a testament to a time of watermills, farms, maple sap houses, and an older way of living.
Home to the once famous Idel Wild Land (1820) and in the late 1900s a beautiful French piece-and-piece log mansion, built in the tradition of the French Fort, constructed as a testament to this waterfront community's revival.
The New York, Ontario & Western railroad used to serve towns on the north side of Oneida Lake, including Jewell.