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Rochester, New York, USA

Rochester, Monroe, New York, USA

Rochester is known as both the Flour City and the Flower City. The community is home to the first abolitionist group, bloomers, marshmallows, Jell-O, French's Mustard, baby shoes, gold teeth and the mail chute.


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  • News 1812 - June 1 - Snow whitened the ground in Rochester NY

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    June 1, 1812

  • News 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 keep them in operation. They can manufacture and put up ready for market, 5000 barrels a day.
    genealogybank.com
    New-Hampshire Patriot
    New Hampshire
    October 31, 1836

  • News 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 time the whole block, from the Arcade on Buffalo Street, to Hamilton's book store on State Street, was enveloped in flames.

    The third story of the co...Read MORE...


  • News 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 shake the houses like an earthquake. One bolt descended with fatal effect upon the house of MR. WM. MATHEWS, No. 28, Wilder Street, killing three persons...Read MORE...


  • News 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 jury and ascertain the facts in the case; but, before the inquest was fairly commenced, the person supposed to be deceased arose upon his feet and walk...Read MORE...


  • News 1851 - Musings
    Certain ingenious and enterprising physicians in Rochester, New York, have discovered that the succubes, or female spirits, that have caused the famous spirited knockings, are all 'knock-kneed!' Marrying men must look sharp before they commit themselves. - Boston Post.
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    New-Hampshire Patriot
    New Hampshire
    April 17, 1851

  • 1852 - July 5 – Frederick Douglass delivered his famous speech "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" in Rochester, New York.

    wikipedia.org
    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 miles by railroad W. by N. from Albany, and 68 miles E. N. E. from Buffalo. Lat. 43° 8' N., Lon. 77° 51' W. Rochester is the largest town on the great t...Read MORE...


  • News 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 beefsteak broiled or some oysters fried for breakfast - the lady, whose tastes are excellent, contended for the latter.
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    Daily Globe
    California
    May 26, 1858

  • News 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 she saved from drowning weighs nearly 200 pounds.
    St Joseph Herald
    Saint Joseph, Michigan
    May 29, 1869

  • Rochester, New York, USA
    Mechanics' Hotel
    M. Cumins, Proprietor
    No. 10 Platt-st, bet. Mill & State
    Rochester, N.Y.

    The Irish Canadian, Toronto, Ontario, Wednesday, March 30, 1870
    Advertisement
  • News 1871 - November 18 - American suffragette Susan B Anthony arrested after voting on the 5th November in Rochester NY

    historyorb.com
    November 18, 1871

  • Rochester, New York, USA
    Rochester from Mount Hope Cemetery
    Picturesque America... Oliver Bell Bunce, William Cullen Bryant
    New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1872-1874.
    Artwork
  • Rochester, New York, USA
    Whitcomb House

    The Whitcomb House was a six-story hotel erected in 1872 in the Romanesque Revival style. It was demolished in 1947.

    The Whitcomb House, then one of Rochester's premier hotels, was a venue that served both suffrage conventions.

    1890 Convention. The Whitcomb House hosted executive sessions of the Association's governing board on December 17 and December 18. At the December 17 executive session, nationally prominent suffrage leaders Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady... Read MORE...

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  • Rochester, New York, USA
    DON'T BE BALD
    Don't be prematurely gray. Stop your hair falling. Use our HYGIENIC VACUUM CAP at home a few minutes each day. It forces circulation of blood through the hair roots. It means perfect health for the hair. Endorsed by the leading physicians. 30 days' free trial. Booklet Free.

    HYGIENIC VACUUM CAP CO.
    705 Sibley Bldg., Rochester, N.Y.
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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 Ontario (where is Charlotte, its lake-port), 360 miles by rail N.W. of New York and 76 miles E. of Suspension Bridge. Lat: 45° 8' 17" N.; lon. 77° 51" W...Read MORE...


  • Rochester, New York, USA
    The Folding Pocket Kodak
    Loads in Daylight
    Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, N.Y.

    Ladies' Home Journal
    February 1898
    Advertisement
  • Rochester, New York, USA
    Curtice Brothers Blue Label Soups
    Curtice Bothers Co., Rochester, N.Y.

    The Ladies' Home Journal
    April 1898

    Curtice Brothers, founded in 1868, by Simeon and Edgar Curtice, was one of the pioneers in the canning and preserving of food products...

    The Curtice Brothers copartnership continued until 1889, when the business was turned over to a corporation, organized for that purpose, under the name of Curtice Brothers Company, which continued until 1901, when it was consolidated with the... Read MORE...

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  • Rochester, New York, USA
    Sen-Sen
    Throat Ease
    Breath Perfume

    Sen-Sen Co., Rochester, N.Y.

    The Ladies' Home Journal
    May 1898
    Advertisement
  • News 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 horses. They were attached to a sprinkling cart and stood under a tree on Portland avenue, formerly North avenue, for shelter. The driver, Valentine Wahl. ...Read MORE...


  • News 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.

    WeatherForYou.com
    February 28, 1900

  • Rochester, New York, USA
    Northeast corner of Main and State Street, Rochester, N.Y.
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  • Rochester, New York, USA
    Four Corners - Rochester, N.Y.
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  • Rochester, New York, USA
    School No. 6
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  • Rochester, New York, USA
    Crescent Beach Hotel, Duck Pond, Lake Ontario
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  • Rochester, New York, USA
    Boardwalk, Ontario Beach
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  • Rochester, New York, USA
    Mid-Summer Scene, Seneca Park
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  • Rochester, New York, USA
    Public Market, Rochester, N.Y.
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  • News 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.

    Rochester, N. Y., Jan. 9. - Twenty-eight dead bodies lie at the morgue, and twelve others more or less injured lie at the different hospitals in the city as a result of t...Read MORE...


  • Rochester, New York, USA
    Ansco camera early model D
    Wollensak Lens - Cyko Automatic, about 1901
    Douglas County Historical Society Courthouse Museum, Genoa, Nevada
  • News 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

  • News Sibley Fire of 1904
    Disaster, in the form of a faulty 5-cent fuse, struck in the bitterly-cold early-morning hours of February 26, 1904.

    It was said that the Sibley Fire of 1904, started by the aforementioned fuse, and fueled by yard after yard of drapery fabric and other dry goods merchandise, was the most spotted ...Read MORE...


  • Rochester, New York, USA
    East Avenue, Corner Main Street
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  • Rochester, New York, USA
    East Side High School, 1905
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  • Rochester, New York, USA
    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 Charlotte, its lake-port) and 70 miles ENE. of Buffalo, on the New York Central and Hudson River, the Erie, the Lehigh Valley, the Penn sylvania and other...Read MORE...


  • Rochester, New York, USA
    A Summer Afternoon at Ontario Beach Park, 1906
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  • Rochester, New York, USA
    Aqueduct carrying Erie Canal over Genesee River, 1907
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  • Rochester, New York, USA
    Hahnemann Hospital, 1907

    "...The origins of Hahnemann Hospital trace back to a debate that divided Rochester's medical community during the late 19th century. It pitted advocates of allopathy, the belief in using medicine to treat the symptoms of illnesses, versus adherents of homeopathy, the practice of treating the causes of disease through natural cures.

    Complicating matters further, in the 1880s, Rochester's homeopathic community found itself torn from within. A subgroup of so-called... Read MORE...

    Postcard
  • Rochester, New York, USA
    Powers Building, Hotel and Duffy-McInnerney Co.'s Store, built around 1907

    Original Use: Duffy-McInnerney Company, retail and dry goods store

    Subsequent Uses: Changed to Duffy-Powers in 1911 which then went bankrupt in1932. It then became the Civic Exhibits building in 1940. In 1943 the building was used by the Navy for wartime manufacturing purposes. In 1961, the property was acquired by Rochester Institute of Technology. libraryweb.org
    Postcard
  • Rochester, New York, USA
    Duffy-McInnerney Co., 1909

    Businessmen James Duffy and Thomas Henry McInnerney built the 7 story structure to house their department store, the second largest in the state. The top 7th floor 800-seat restaurant was a
    unique attraction to the original department store versus rival Sibley’s. It was also the first Rochester building to be electrified, using Edison light bulbs. rpastamps.org
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  • Rochester, New York, USA
    Hotel Rochester, 1909
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  • Rochester, New York, USA
    Post Office, 1909
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  • Rochester, New York, USA
    New York Central Station
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  • Rochester, New York, USA
    Elks New Home
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  • Rochester, New York, USA
    At the "Four Corners", looking West on Main Street
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  • Rochester, New York, USA
    Lower Falls
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  • Rochester, New York, USA
    Powers Hotel
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  • Rochester, New York, USA
    Sibley, Lindsay & Curr Co.

    "...Three young men ventured west from Boston to Rochester, New York in 1868, and founded the Sibley, Landsay & Curr Co. on March 30 of that year. That the store that bore their names grew into the largest department store between New York and Chicago can't help but be a testimonial to the hard work and management skills of its founders. All three of these men, one a native New Englander (Rufus A. Sibley [1841-1928]) and two originally from Scotland (Alexander M. ... Read MORE...

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  • Rochester, New York, USA
    A view of South Ave., showing Y.M.C.A. & Osburn House
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  • Rochester, New York, USA
    St. Bernard's Seminary
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  • Rochester, New York, USA
    Main Street (East) from Wilder Building
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  • Rochester, New York, USA
    Virginia Reel, Ontario Beach Park, 1912
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  • Rochester, New York, USA
    Magnolias in Bloom, Oxford Street
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  • Rochester, New York, USA
    Broad Street, Over New Subway
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  • Rochester, New York, USA
    Court House
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  • Rochester, New York, USA
    Hotel Cadillac
    Chestnut at Elm Street
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  • Rochester, New York, USA
    St. Mary's Hospital
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  • Rochester, New York, USA
    Kodak Park, Entrance to Works at Eastman Kodak Co., 1921
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  • Rochester, New York, USA
    Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester Herald, Rochester, N.Y., Friday, December 3, 1926.
  • Rochester, New York, USA
    Armory
    Postcard
  • News 1932 - March 14 – George Eastman, founder of Kodak, commits suicide.

    wikipedia.org
    March 14, 1932



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Mechanics' Hotel
M. Cumins, Proprietor
No. 10 Platt-st, bet. Mill & State
Rochester, N.Y.

The Irish Canadian, Toronto, Ontario, Wednesday, March 30, 1870

Rochester, New York, USA

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Rochester from Mount Hope Cemetery
Picturesque America... Oliver Bell Bunce, William Cullen Bryant
New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1872-1874.

Rochester, New York, USA

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Whitcomb House

The Whitcomb House was a six-story hotel erected in 1872 in the Romanesque Revival style. It was demolished in 1947.

The Whitcomb House, then one of Rochester's premier hotels, was a venue that served both suffrage conventions.

1890 Convention. The Whitcomb House hosted executive sessions of the Association's governing board on December 17 and December 18. At the December 17 executive session, nationally prominent suffrage leaders Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady... Read MORE...

Read more about Susan Brownell ANTHONY photo of ancestor

Rochester, New York, USA

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DON'T BE BALD
Don't be prematurely gray. Stop your hair falling. Use our HYGIENIC VACUUM CAP at home a few minutes each day. It forces circulation of blood through the hair roots. It means perfect health for the hair. Endorsed by the leading physicians. 30 days' free trial. Booklet Free.

HYGIENIC VACUUM CAP CO.
705 Sibley Bldg., Rochester, N.Y.

Rochester, New York, USA

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The Folding Pocket Kodak
Loads in Daylight
Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, N.Y.

Ladies' Home Journal
February 1898

Rochester, New York, USA

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Curtice Brothers Blue Label Soups
Curtice Bothers Co., Rochester, N.Y.

The Ladies' Home Journal
April 1898

Curtice Brothers, founded in 1868, by Simeon and Edgar Curtice, was one of the pioneers in the canning and preserving of food products...

The Curtice Brothers copartnership continued until 1889, when the business was turned over to a corporation, organized for that purpose, under the name of Curtice Brothers Company, which continued until 1901, when it was consolidated with the... Read MORE...

Read more about Simeon Goodnow CURTICE

Rochester, New York, USA

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Sen-Sen
Throat Ease
Breath Perfume

Sen-Sen Co., Rochester, N.Y.

The Ladies' Home Journal
May 1898

Rochester, New York, USA

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Northeast corner of Main and State Street, Rochester, N.Y.

Rochester, New York, USA

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Four Corners - Rochester, N.Y.

Rochester, New York, USA

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Public Market, 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

Rochester, New York, USA

Douglas County Historical Society Courthouse Museum, Genoa, Nevada
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Wollensak Lens - Cyko Automatic, about 1901

Rochester, New York, USA

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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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A Summer Afternoon at Ontario Beach Park, 1906

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Aqueduct carrying Erie Canal over Genesee River, 1907

Rochester, New York, USA

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Hahnemann Hospital, 1907

"...The origins of Hahnemann Hospital trace back to a debate that divided Rochester's medical community during the late 19th century. It pitted advocates of allopathy, the belief in using medicine to treat the symptoms of illnesses, versus adherents of homeopathy, the practice of treating the causes of disease through natural cures.

Complicating matters further, in the 1880s, Rochester's homeopathic community found itself torn from within. A subgroup of so-called... Read MORE...

Read more about Christian Friedrich Samuel HAHNEMANN photo of ancestor

Rochester, New York, USA

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Powers Building, Hotel and Duffy-McInnerney Co.'s Store, built around 1907

Original Use: Duffy-McInnerney Company, retail and dry goods store

Subsequent Uses: Changed to Duffy-Powers in 1911 which then went bankrupt in1932. It then became the Civic Exhibits building in 1940. In 1943 the building was used by the Navy for wartime manufacturing purposes. In 1961, the property was acquired by Rochester Institute of Technology. libraryweb.org

Rochester, New York, USA

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Duffy-McInnerney Co., 1909

Businessmen James Duffy and Thomas Henry McInnerney built the 7 story structure to house their department store, the second largest in the state. The top 7th floor 800-seat restaurant was a
unique attraction to the original department store versus rival Sibley’s. It was also the first Rochester building to be electrified, using Edison light bulbs. rpastamps.org

Rochester, New York, USA

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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

Rochester, New York, USA

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Powers Hotel

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Sibley, Lindsay & Curr Co.

"...Three young men ventured west from Boston to Rochester, New York in 1868, and founded the Sibley, Landsay & Curr Co. on March 30 of that year. That the store that bore their names grew into the largest department store between New York and Chicago can't help but be a testimonial to the hard work and management skills of its founders. All three of these men, one a native New Englander (Rufus A. Sibley [1841-1928]) and two originally from Scotland (Alexander M. ... Read MORE...

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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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Main Street (East) from Wilder Building

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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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History, News and Stories of Rochester, New York, USA

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  • News  1812 - June 1 - Snow whitened the ground in Rochester NY

    WeatherForYou.com
    June 1, 1812
  • News  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 keep them in operation. They can manufacture and put up ready for market, 5000 barrels a day.
    genealogybank.com
    New-Hampshire Patriot
    New Hampshire
    October 31, 1836
  • News  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 time the whole block, from the Arcade on Buffalo Street, to Hamilton's book store on State Street, was enveloped in flames.

    The third story of the... Read MORE...

  • News  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 shake the houses like an earthquake. One bolt descended with fatal effect upon the house of MR. WM. MATHEWS, No. 28, Wilder Street, killing three... Read MORE...

  • News  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 jury and ascertain the facts in the case; but, before the inquest was fairly commenced, the person supposed to be deceased arose upon his feet and... Read MORE...

  • News  1851 - Musings
    Certain ingenious and enterprising physicians in Rochester, New York, have discovered that the succubes, or female spirits, that have caused the famous spirited knockings, are all 'knock-kneed!' Marrying men must look sharp before they commit themselves. - Boston Post.
    genealogybank.com
    New-Hampshire Patriot
    New Hampshire
    April 17, 1851
  • 1852 - July 5 – Frederick Douglass delivered his famous speech "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" in Rochester, New York.

    wikipedia.org
    July 5, 1852

    Read more about Frederick Augustus Washington (BAILEY) DOUGLASS photo of ancestor
  • 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 miles by railroad W. by N. from Albany, and 68 miles E. N. E. from Buffalo. Lat. 43° 8' N., Lon. 77° 51' W. Rochester is the largest town on the great... Read MORE...

  • News  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 beefsteak broiled or some oysters fried for breakfast - the lady, whose tastes are excellent, contended for the latter.
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    Daily Globe
    California
    May 26, 1858
  • News  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 she saved from drowning weighs nearly 200 pounds.
    St Joseph Herald
    Saint Joseph, Michigan
    May 29, 1869
  • News  1871 - November 18 - American suffragette Susan B Anthony arrested after voting on the 5th November in Rochester NY

    historyorb.com
    November 18, 1871

    Read more about Susan Brownell ANTHONY photo of ancestor
  • 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 Ontario (where is Charlotte, its lake-port), 360 miles by rail N.W. of New York and 76 miles E. of Suspension Bridge. Lat: 45° 8' 17" N.; lon. 77° 51"... Read MORE...

  • News  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 horses. They were attached to a sprinkling cart and stood under a tree on Portland avenue, formerly North avenue, for shelter. The driver, Valentine Wahl. ... Read MORE...

  • News  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.

    WeatherForYou.com
    February 28, 1900
  • News  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.

    Rochester, N. Y., Jan. 9. - Twenty-eight dead bodies lie at the morgue, and twelve others more or less injured lie at the different hospitals in the city as a result of... Read MORE...

  • Old Photos of Rochester (N.Y.) - 1903-1915
  • News  Sibley Fire of 1904
    Disaster, in the form of a faulty 5-cent fuse, struck in the bitterly-cold early-morning hours of February 26, 1904.

    It was said that the Sibley Fire of 1904, started by the aforementioned fuse, and fueled by yard after yard of drapery fabric and other dry goods merchandise, was the most spotted ... Read MORE...

  • News  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
  • 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 Charlotte, its lake-port) and 70 miles ENE. of Buffalo, on the New York Central and Hudson River, the Erie, the Lehigh Valley, the Penn sylvania and... Read MORE...

  • News  1932 - March 14 – George Eastman, founder of Kodak, commits suicide.

    wikipedia.org
    March 14, 1932

    Read more about George EASTMAN photo of ancestor






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