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History of Rochester, New York, USA

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•  1812 - June 1 - Snow whitened the ground in Rochester NY
  
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  June 1, 1812
  
  
•  1836 - Greatest Flour Manufactory
  Rochester, New York, is said to be the greatest flour manufactory in the world. There are 21 mills, which require 20,000 bushels of wheat daily to...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1846 - DESTRUCTIVE CONFLAGRATION AT ROCHESTER.
  A fire broke out at Rochester, N.Y., on Saturday morning in the billiard room of Geo. W. Hall, adjoining the office of the Democrat, and in a short...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1847 - VIOLENT THUNDER STORM - THREE PERSONS KILLED BY LIGHTNING.
  This city was visited soon after midnight, Tuesday morning, with a thunder storm of unusual violence.
  
  Several of the shocks were so heavy as to...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1848 - Arose from the Dead
  At Rochester, New York, on Thursday, a man was taken from the canal who was thought to be drowned. The coroner was sent for, who proceeded to call a...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1851 - Musings
  Certain ingenious and enterprising physicians in Rochester, New York, have discovered that the succubes, or female spirits, that have caused the...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1852 - July 5 – Frederick Douglass delivered his famous speech "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" in Rochester, New York.
  
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  July 5, 1852
  
  
• 1854 - Rochester
  Rochester, a city, capital of Monroe county, New York, is situated on both sides of Genesee river. 7 miles from its entrance into Lake Ontario, 230...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1858 - Breakfast Divorce
  A suit for divorce is pending in Rochester, New York, which originated in a dispute between Mr. B. and his wife as to whether they should have...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1869 - A Mrs. Knight, of Rochester, N.Y., a few days ago, procured a boat and went to the rescue of a man who was struggling in the water about three hundred yards from the shore.
  She grasped him by the hair of the head and managed with one hand to paddle the boat ashore. Mrs. Knight is a woman of a slight frame, and the man...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1871 - November 18 - American suffragette Susan B Anthony arrested after voting on the 5th November in Rochester NY
  
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  November 18, 1871
  
  
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  Rochester from Mount Hope Cemetery
  Picturesque America... Oliver Bell Bunce, William Cullen Bryant
  New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1872-1874.
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• 1895 - Rochester
  Rochester, a city, capital of Monroe co, N.Y., and a port of entry, is situated on both sides of the Genesee River, 7 miles above its mouth in Lake...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  The Folding Pocket Kodak
  Loads in Daylight
  Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, N.Y.
  
  Ladies' Home Journal
  February 1898
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  Curtice Brothers Blue Label Soups
  Curtice Bothers Co., Rochester, N.Y.
  
  The Ladies' Home Journal
  April 1898
  Advertisement
  
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  Sen-Sen
  Throat Ease
  Breath Perfume
  
  Sen-Sen Co., Rochester, N.Y.
  
  The Ladies' Home Journal
  May 1898
  Advertisement
  
•  1899 - HORSES ELECTROCUTED. Team Attached to Sprinkling Cart Killed by Lightning Bolt.
  As one of the results of yesterday's severe storm. Charles W. Hartung, a liveryman, with stables at No. 70 Ontario street, is minus two valuable...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  February 28, 1900 - A massive storm spreads record snows from Kansas to New York State. Snowfall totals ranged up to 43 inches at Rochester NY.
  
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  February 28, 1900
  
  
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  Northeast corner of Main and State Street, Rochester, N.Y.
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  Four Corners - Rochester, N.Y.
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  School No. 6
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  Crescent Beach Hotel, Duck Pond, Lake Ontario
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  Boardwalk, Ontario Beach
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  Mid-Summer Scene, Seneca Park
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  Public Market, Rochester, N.Y.
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•  1901 - ROCHESTER'S HORROR. TOTAL DEATHS IN THE ORPHAN ASYLUM DISASTER NUMBER TWENTY-EIGHT.
  TWENTY-SIX OF THEM CHILDREN.
  
  FRIGHTFUL SCENE WHEN THE FIREMEN ARRIVED - WINDOWS FULL OF SHRIEKING LITTLE ONES - DEATH ROLL.
  
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•  1904 - COSTLY FIRE.
  ROCHESTER, N. Y., July 6 - Fire started in the picture frame gallery of H. E. Hugus at noon, and the loss is estimated at $100,000.
  Wilkes-Barre Times
  Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
  July 6, 1904
  
  
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  East Avenue, Corner Main Street
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  East Side High School, 1905
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  New First M.E. Church
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• 1906
  Rochester, a city, capital of Monroe co., N.Y., is situated on both sides of the Genesee River, 7 miles above its mouth in Lake Ontario (where is...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  A Summer Afternoon at Ontario Beach Park, 1906
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  Aqueduct carrying Erie Canal over Genesee River, 1907
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  Hahnemann Hospital, 1907
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  Powers Building, Hotel and Duffy-McInnerney Co.'s Store
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  Duffy-McInnerney Co., 1909
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  Hotel Rochester, 1909
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  Post Office, 1909
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  New York Central Station
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  Elks New Home
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  At the "Four Corners", looking West on Main Street
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  Lower Falls
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  Powers Hotel
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  Sibley, Lindsay & Curr Co.
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  A view of South Ave., showing Y.M.C.A. & Osburn House
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  St. Bernard's Seminary
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  Whitcomb House
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  Virginia Reel, Ontario Beach Park, 1912
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  Magnolias in Bloom, Oxford Street
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  Broad Street, Over New Subway
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  Court House
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  Hotel Cadillac
  Chestnut at Elm Street
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  St. Mary's Hospital
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  Kodak Park, Entrance to Works at Eastman Kodak Co., 1921
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  Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester Herald, Rochester, N.Y., Friday, December 3, 1926.
  
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  Armory
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•  1932 - March 14 – George Eastman, founder of Kodak, commits suicide.
  
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  March 14, 1932