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Brockport, Monroe, New York, USA
By the 1840s, Brockport had developed a major industrial economy. It was the home of several iron foundries that produced stoves, tools, and threshing machines. In 1845, Cyrus McCormick came to Brockport and licensed the Backus & Fitch foundry to manufacture 100 of his newly-invented reapers. Either they were never made or did not work. So he then gave the same license to Seymour, Morgan & Co. In 1846, they produced 100 reapers that did work—thereby bringing the Industrial Revolution to agriculture.
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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...
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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
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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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In 1912 the voters of Brockport authorized the construction of the present water system, which draws on Lake Ontario.
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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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1925 - Brockport's newspapers, the Republic and the Democrat merged to form the Republic-Democrat.
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1927 - Moore-Shafer shoe company closes in Brockport.
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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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