History of Rochester, New York, USA

Journey back in time to Rochester, New York, USA

•  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 keep them in operation. They can manufacture and put up ready for market, 5000 barrels a day.
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  New-Hampshire Patriot
  New Hampshire
  October 31, 1836
  
  
•  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.
  
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•  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...
  
  
  
•  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...
  
  
  
•  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
  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.
  
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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 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...
  
  
  
•  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
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  May 26, 1858
  
  
•  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.
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  Saint Joseph, Michigan
  May 29, 1869
  
  
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  Mechanics' Hotel
  M. Cumins, Proprietor
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  Rochester, N.Y.
  
  The Irish Canadian, Toronto, Ontario, Wednesday, March 30, 1870
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•  1871 - November 18 - American suffragette Susan B Anthony arrested after voting on the 5th November in Rochester NY
  
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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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  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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• 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...
  
  
  
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  The Folding Pocket Kodak
  Loads in Daylight
  Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, N.Y.
  
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  February 1898
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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...
  
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  Sen-Sen
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  Breath Perfume
  
  Sen-Sen Co., Rochester, N.Y.
  
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  May 1898
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•  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...
  
  
  
•  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.
  
  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...
  
  
  
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  Wollensak Lens - Cyko Automatic, about 1901
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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.
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  Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
  July 6, 1904
  
  
•  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...
  
  
  
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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 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...
  
  
  
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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
  
  "...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...
  
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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
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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
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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.
  
  "...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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  Armory
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•  1932 - March 14 – George Eastman, founder of Kodak, commits suicide.
  
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  March 14, 1932