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A Story Historical

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Scrantom, Wetmore, and Co.
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Subjects

History, Rochester, New York, Upstate New York, Local History, Monroe County, Historical Portrait, Geography, Sociology, Anthropology, US History, Rochester History, NY, NY State, New York State, City History, Municipality, Locality, Municipal History, Biographical, Biographical Sections, Maps, Map, Mapping, Cartography, Rochesterville, Phelps New York, Gorham New York, Irondequoit, Irondequoit Bay, Niagra Falls, Genesee River, Flour Mills, Flour Mill, Flour City, Native American History, Native American Treaty, One Hundred Acre Tract, Aqueduct, Erie Canal, Clinton's Ditch, Selye Fire Engine Manufacturing Company, Waterfall, Waterfalls, Trade, Trade Routes, Residences, Homes, Illustrations, Drawings, Historical Drawings, Historical Illustration, Monuments, Mills, High School, Public Market, Outdoor Marketplace, Farmers Market, Farming, Industry, Industrial Revolution, Canal Building, Hotels, Famous Hotel, Cemetery, Famous Cemetery, Hanford's Landing, Genesee Valley, Seneca Tribe, Seneca Native Americans, racism, history of racism, racism in Colonial America, Seabreeze, Sea Breeze New York, The Old French Burying Ground, banks, banking, financial institutions, financial history, mastodon, archaeology, white supremacy, history of white supremacy, League of the Five Nations, Iroquois, confederacy, Tuscarora, Indians, American Indian History, American Indians, American Indian

People

Diedrich Knicerbocker, Nathaniel Rochester, Dewitt Clinton, Susan B. Anthony, Isaak Walton, Thomas Kempshall, Henry O'Reilly, Charles J. Hill, E.W. Scrantom, Myron Holley, J. Robinson, Dr. Dewey, Warham Whitney, D.W. Powers, Kate Fox, James Vick, M.B. Anderson, Lewis Henry Morgan (1818-1881), Prof. Henry A. Ward, Henry A. Ward, W.P Letchworth, James E. Seaver

Places

Rochester New York, USA, Upstate New York, Western New York, Genesee Valley, Niagara Falls, Phelps New York, Gorham New York, Irondequoit New York, Brighton New York, Webster New York, Penfield New York, Albany New York, Albany, Penfield, Webster, Irondequoit, Ga-sko-sa'-go, Canandaigua, Canandaigua New York, Buffalo, Buffalo New York

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1884

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Table of Contents

I. The Old Long House and the Tenant Unknown
Page 1
II. The Tenant Dispossessed
Page 2
III. Trouble in the Camp
Page 16
IV. Irondequoit Bay
Page 21
V. The City of Tryon, on Irondequoit Bay
Page 32
VI. The Genesee of the Senecas
Page 36
VII. The Title Deed of the New Tenant
Page 41
VIII. Arrival Number One
Page 47
IX. Some of Our First Families
Page 57
X. A Dismal Swamp
Page 70
XI. Rochesterville
Page 84
XII. Our Brave Thirty-Three
Page 95
XIII. "Clinton's Big Ditch"
Page 106
XIV. A Decade Memorable
Page 119
XV. The Old Files
Page 205
XVI. Mount Hope
Page 223
XVII. The Isms Charge
Page 245
XVIII. Men and Things Notable
Page 272
XIX. What Shall Be Hereafter
Page 319
XX. A Few First Things: Scrap-Basket Historical
Appendix
Appendix A.
Page 353
Appendix B.
Page 357
Index.
Page 407
List of Illustrations
Genesee Falls. Frontispiece
Page Frontispiece
Glen House, Lower Falls. (faces)
Page 4
Rattlesnake.
Page 6
The Tenant Unknown.
Page 7
The Tenant Dispossessed.
Page 15
Emblems whose Glory is Departed.
Page 15
Irondequoit Bay.
Page 21
Hennepin's Picture of Niagara.
Page 31
Embryo Isaak Walton.
Page 35
Stump Mortar.
Page 40
Indian Treaty.
Page 43
Map of Phelps and Gorham's Purchase. (faces)
Page 44
N. Rochester. (faces)
Page 58
Selye Fire Engine Manufactory. (faces)
Page 60
Mills of Thomas Kempshall. (faces)
Page 60
A Cavalcade.
Page 64
Map of the Original One Hundred Acre Tract. (faces)
Page 64
The Carthage Wooden Bridge, 1818.
Page 69
Eagle Tavern. (faces)
Page 74
Rochester City Bank.
Page 94
Canal Boat.
Page 106
Plan of the New Aqueduct. (faces)
Page 112
Keg from Which Clinton Poured the Water of Lake Erie into the Atlantic.
Page 118
Map of the Village of Rochester in 1820. (faces)
Page 118
Rochester House. (faces)
Page 120
Christ Church. (faces)
Page 130
Second Baptist Church. (faces)
Page 132
First Presbyterian Church. (faces)
Page 132
St. Luke's Church, P.E. (faces)
Page 132
St. Patrick's Church, R.C. (faces)
Page 132
Tonnewanta Railroad Bridge.
Page 134
Carthage Railroad.
Page 135
Henry O'Reilly. (faces)
Page 146
The Old Arcade.
Page 155
Old Residence on Fitzhugh Street. (faces)
Page 162
Mills of Charles J. Hill. (faces)
Page 164
Mills of E. W. Scrantom. (faces)
Page 164
The New Market (1838).
Page 165
Rochester High School.
Page 166
Mills of Warham Whitney. (faces)
Page 166
Eagle Mills. (faces)
Page 166
Brick Church Presbyterian. (faces)
Page 168
St. Paul's (Grace) Church, P.E. (faces)
Page 168
Dr. Dewey. (faces)
Page 170
The Old Allen Seminary Now the Site of the Warner Buildings.
Page 183
Third Presbyterian CHurch. (faces)
Page 194
First Methodist Chapel. (faces)
Page 194
A North Road Stage Coach.
Page 210
"Plain Bonnets for Friends and Methodists".
Page 211
J. Robinson, the Hair Cutter.
Page 212
The Summer Garden in Carroll Street.
Page 216
Entrance to Mount Hope.
Page 223
Myron Holley. (faces)
Page 230
Erickson Monument. (faces)
Page 232
View of Hill of Revolutionary Patriots at Mount Hope. (faces)
Page 236
Susan B. Anthony. (faces)
Page 260
Kate Fox. (faces)
Page 268
Powers Commercial Buildings and the Powers Hotel. (faces)
Page 272
Monroe House. (faces)
Page 274
D.W. Powers. (faces)
Page 280
Warner Buildings. (faces)
Page 282
Warner Residence. (faces)
Page 288
Elephas Primagenus.
Page 291
James Vick. (faces)
Page 294
University of Rochester. (faces)
Page 296
M.B. Anderson. (faces)
Page 298
Rochester Savings Bank. (faces)
Page 302
St. Paul's Church in Ruins. (faces)
Page 312
First Baptist Church. (faces)
Page 318
Bird's-Eye View of Rochester.
Page 319
Brick Church, Presbyterian. (faces)
Page 322

Edition Notes

Pat of the Rochester Public Library Local History Division Historic Monographs Collection and Monroe County Public Library System's Digitized Works Collection

Published in
Rochester, New York, USA
Series
Monroe County Public Library Digitized Resources Collection
Other Titles
Rochester: A Story Historical
Copyright Date
1884

Contributors

Dedicated to
Sarah R.A. Dolley, M.D.

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vii, 412 pages, frontispiece, illustrations, plates, portraits, plans (part double)
Number of pages
412

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OL32208868M

Work Description

A historical overview of Rochester, New York and its surrounding metro area, including multiple hand drawn sketches of various features of the local area during the 1880s.

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