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History of Brockport, New York, USA

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• Settlement in Brockport began after a road was cut through the wilderness from Leroy in 1802.
  
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• Brockport became a village around 1820, when the Erie Canal was laid out, and was incorporated in 1829
  
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• 1830 - Population of Brockport, New York - 685
  
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• 1854 - Brockport
  Brockport, a post-village of Sweden township, Monroe county, New York, on the Erie canal, 235 miles W. by N. from Albany, and 20 miles W. from...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1859
  BROCKPORT, a village of Sweden township, Monroe co., in the state of New York, U.S., 235 m. WNW of Albany, on the Erie canal. Pop. in 1840, 1,249.
  A Gazetteer of the World: Or, Dictionary of Geographical Knowledge, Publisher A. Fullarton, 1859
  
  
• 1877 - Market Street in Brockport heavily damaged by fire.
  
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• 1895 - Brockport
  Brock'port, a post-village of Monroe co., N.Y., in Sweden township, on the Erie Canal, and on the New York Central Railroad, 17 miles W. by N. of...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Club House, Brockport Yacht Club, Sunnyside Beach
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  Masonic Temple, Brockport, N.Y.
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  Market Street, showing Post Office
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  Erie Canal, West of Brockport, N.Y.
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  Office of Moore's Newspaper Agency, and City Hall
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  Mary Jane Holmes Residence, 1907
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  Presbyterian Church, 1908
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  Hotel Giebel, 1909
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  N.Y.C. Station and Lark Inn
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  B.L.&R. Trolley Car - State St., Brockport, N.Y., 1910
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  Capen Hose House, Main St. and Park Ave.
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  Moore-Shafer Shoe Mnfg. Co.
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  Sunnyside Beach, Lake Ontario, North of Brockport, N.Y.
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  The Batavia Preserving Co., North Main St., 1911
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  Lake Ave. looking North, from Brockport, N.Y., 1911
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• In 1912 the voters of Brockport authorized the construction of the present water system, which draws on Lake Ontario.
  
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  "Whitehall" Home of Fred H. Gordon, 1912
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  Methodist Church, 1914
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• 1916
  Brockport, a banking post-village of Monroe co., N.Y., on the Erie Canal and on the New York Central and Hudson River R., 17 miles W. by N. of...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Grammar School
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  Brockport State Normal School
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• 1925 - Brockport's newspapers, the Republic and the Democrat merged to form the Republic-Democrat.
  
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  Church of the Nativity
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• 1927 - Moore-Shafer shoe company closes in Brockport.
  
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  Brockport Hospital
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• (Brockport) Lakeside Memorial Hospital is built.
  
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• Owens-Illinois' Glass Container 4 Division, started operations in 1961 in Brockport.
  
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• (Brockport) The sewage treatment plant closed in 1973 when the village was connected to the Pure Waters interceptor line.
  
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