"Champion of the Genesee River" [west side] Bill Davis was born May 6, 1918 in Plymouth, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Penn State University as an industrial engineer and came to Rochester in 1939 where he worked for the Eastman Kodak Company. . . . — — Map (db m90512) HM
William Marvin grew up on a farm in New York where he attended and taught school before he read law at Bladenbary MD, near Washington. In 1830, he was admitted to the bar and practiced law in Maryland and New York. In 1835, he was appointed United . . . — — Map (db m222896) HM
The Jeptha V. Harris family moved from South Carolina to Mississippi, where he attended high school and graduated from the University of Mississippi. Jeptha studied medicine at the University of New York and South Carolina Medical College before . . . — — Map (db m298209) HM
Originally called Northwest Beach Park when Monroe County began its development in 1929, the park's name was changed to Hamlin Beach State Park when New York State took title in January 1938. Company 1252 of the Civilian Conservation Corps . . . — — Map (db m306559) HM
Monroe County was formed from parts of Ontario and Genesee Counties on February 23, 1821, by an act of the New York State Legislature.
The cornerstone for the first county court house was laid on September 1, 1821. The county commissioners were . . . — — Map (db m156174) HM
On this site in 1862 was erected Camp Fitz-John Porter as a recruit camp for Civil War soldiers. Named after a Union general, it was the initial training ground for Monroe County's 108th and 140th New York infantry regiments and Mack's 18 . . . — — Map (db m115287) HM
J.Y. Porter was educated in the public schools of Burlington, New York. His professional training was at the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, PA, from which he graduated in 1870. That year he was appointed an acting surgeon in the United . . . — — Map (db m223716) HM
Empire State Trail – Rochester
Welcome to the western New York portion of the Empire State Trail. The Rochester area's settlement stretches back to the Seneca tribe -the westernmost of the Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy. While it's . . . — — Map (db m182422) HM
John Dudley was born February 25, 1758 in Old Saybrook, Connecticut. In 1776 at the age of 18, he enlisted in the New Hampshire militia and served at Fort Ticonderoga in Colonel Reed's Regiment. There Dudley and the rest of the American troops . . . — — Map (db m230990) HM WM
Norman Jonathan Hall was born March 4, 1837 in Geneva, New York. His family moved to Monroe County when Norman was 12 years old and settled on a 333 acre farm along the River Raisin in east Raisinville. He was appointed to West Point in July 1854, . . . — — Map (db m201536) HM
A Canal 1840-1878 The Genesee Valley Canal provided transportation through the Genesee River Valley between the Erie Canal in Rochester and the Allegheny River at Millgrove, southeast of Olean. The Genesee Valley Canal was one of several . . . — — Map (db m207301) HM
In 1846 Elisabetha Merklin left home in Oberhausen, Germany and sailed for Tampa, Florida to live with an uncle. According to her passport, carried in a tube around her neck, she was a citizen in good standing. The passport said she was leaving for . . . — — Map (db m223552) HM
Livingston Bethel was two years old when his father, Judge Winer Bethel, moved from Nassau, Bahama Islands, to Key West. He was educated in a private school in Key West at the Walnut Hill Military Academy in Geneva, New York. He read law under Homer . . . — — Map (db m223659) HM
John Coleman purchased three lots (115, 117, and 119 East Mill) in 1834. The present building at 115 was built before the Civil War. In 1862 Coleman sold the property to William Hursey who later sold it to Paul C. Brey, who was a German native born . . . — — Map (db m140459) HM
Side A
Sad Sam Jones
1892-1966
With 229 victories, Woodsfield's Samuel Pond Jones, or Sad Sam Jones, was one of professional baseball's top pitchers in the early 1900s. He started his 22-year career with the Cleveland Indians in 1914 . . . — — Map (db m79267) HM
This stone fountain is a remnant from when US Rt. 219 was one of the primary north-south roads in eastern West Virginia. Beginning at Rich Creek, VA, US 219 winds its way through the mountains before eventually reaching the northern terminus in . . . — — Map (db m305325) HM
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The following eyewitness account was written by T. C. McCorvey of Tuscaloosa in April 1865 during the War Between The States.
"A boy of 13 has a distant recollection of some of the incidents of the raid on Monroeville. The . . . — — Map (db m85912) HM
The 750-mile Empire State Trail connects people to New York's spectacular natural beauty, cultural heritage, iconic landscapes, and unparalleled outdoor recreation opportunities. The Trail promotes healthy lifestyles and provides a place for . . . — — Map (db m182879) HM
Genesee Valley Park
Genesee Valley Park was the second of the original parks in Rochester to be designed by Frederick Law Oldsted. Historic parkland with rolling lawn, groves of mature trees, and placid river views on both sides of the . . . — — Map (db m131882) HM
A Railroad Takes Over the Canal
The Genesee Valley Canal Railroad purchased the Genesee Valley Canal after it closed in 1878 or $100 a mile and began building tracks on the canal's towpath. By the time the line was opened here at . . . — — Map (db m64946) HM
The Earth is Constantly Changing
Soils and sands get washed from mountainsides and settle into lakes and oceans where they are naturally compressed into layers of sedimentary rocks. The layers of rock are like pages of a book and tell the . . . — — Map (db m64530) HM
The Genesee River valley, called by the Native Americans Gen-nis-he-yo (Geneseo) meaning "Pleasant Valley", was prized territory.
In addition to providing transportation and an abundant resource for salmon fishing and hunting, the land had . . . — — Map (db m64531) HM
American Revolution War
April 19, 1775-September 3, 1783
Some of Rush's earliest settlers were those men who served in the American Revolution or the 1779 Sullivan Expedition. The Sullivan Expedition, also known as the . . . — — Map (db m142306) HM WM
Samuel and Persis Cranson, along with their three children, came to Livonia/Redford Township in 1832 from Monroe County, New York. Land was purchased in the names of children Marquis LaFayette, Samuel Jr., and Asa on June 8, 1833 in Township One . . . — — Map (db m151531) HM
This site - once part of the Town of Brighton - was used for farming throughout most of the 1800s. Originally established in 1857, the Monroe County Insane Asylum occupied the land north of Elmwood Avenue. In 1897, the City of Rochester purchased a . . . — — Map (db m145716) HM
Stephen W. Miles was born in New York and came to this area in 1819. He was a successful businessman and acquired large tracts of land. He would stand on the bluff and say, "For miles and miles, it all belongs to Miles." He would eventually . . . — — Map (db m233012) HM WM
Presettlement Times
The area of Michigan known as Monroe was one of our state's earliest settled regions. Its location at the mouth of the River Raisin was strategic to both Native Americans and to the first Europeans who . . . — — Map (db m201328) HM
CIVIL WAR
Frederick Alber · Army · Germany
Frank Dwight Baldwin · Army · Manchester, MI
Frederick A. Ballen · Army · Germany
Charles L. Barrell · Army · Conquest, NY
Joseph E. Brandle · Army · Seneca Co. OH
James Isaac Christianey . . . — — Map (db m236267) WM
