Rochester, New York

Rochester is a city on the southern shore of Lake Ontario in western New York and the seat of Monroe County.

It includes the cities of Buffalo, Rochester, Niagara Falls, Jamestown and the surrounding suburbs, as well as the outlying rural areas of the Great Lakes lowlands, the Genesee Valley, and the Southern Tier.

Rochester is a city on the southern shore of Lake Ontario in western New York and the seat of Monroe County.

Its county seat is the city of Rochester.

With a population of 208,046, Rochester is the third most populous city in New York state, after New York City and Buffalo.

The next four most populous cities in the state are Buffalo, Rochester, Yonkers, and Syracuse, while the state capital is Albany.

It is about 73 mi east of Buffalo and 87 mi west of Syracuse.

It is the fifth-most populous city in the state of New York following New York City, Buffalo, Rochester, and Yonkers.

Several of the region's universities (notably the University of Rochester and Rochester Institute of Technology) have renowned research programs. Not only did they create new industries, but Eastman became a major philanthropist, developing and endowing the University of Rochester, its Eastman School of Music and other local institutions.

The University of Rochester (U of R, UR, or Rochester) is a private research university in Rochester, New York.

The area is the birthplace of Kodak, Western Union, French's, Bausch & Lomb, Gleason and Xerox, which conduct extensive research and manufacturing of industrial and consumer products.

The company was founded in Rochester, New York in 1853 by optician John Bausch and cabinet maker turned financial backer Henry Lomb.

The area is the birthplace of Kodak, Western Union, French's, Bausch & Lomb, Gleason and Xerox, which conduct extensive research and manufacturing of industrial and consumer products.

In 1851, the New York and Mississippi Valley Printing Telegraph Company was organized in Rochester, New York by Samuel L. Selden, Hiram Sibley, and others, with the goal of creating one great telegraph system with unified and efficient operations.

The area is the birthplace of Kodak, Western Union, French's, Bausch & Lomb, Gleason and Xerox, which conduct extensive research and manufacturing of industrial and consumer products.

Xerox is headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut (having moved from Stamford, Connecticut in October 2007), though its largest population of employees is based around Rochester, New York, the area in which the company was founded.

The area is the birthplace of Kodak, Western Union, French's, Bausch & Lomb, Gleason and Xerox, which conduct extensive research and manufacturing of industrial and consumer products.

Gleason Corporation is a prominent machine tool builder based in Rochester, New York, USA.

Not only did they create new industries, but Eastman became a major philanthropist, developing and endowing the University of Rochester, its Eastman School of Music and other local institutions.

The Eastman School of Music is the professional school of music of the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York.

On November 8, 1803, Colonel Nathaniel Rochester (1752–1831), Major Charles Carroll, and Colonel William Fitzhugh, Jr. (1761–1839), all of Hagerstown, Maryland, purchased a 100-acre (c.

Nathaniel Rochester (February 21, 1752 – May 17, 1831) was an American Revolutionary War soldier and land speculator, most noted for founding the settlement which would become Rochester, New York.

Several of the region's universities (notably the University of Rochester and Rochester Institute of Technology) have renowned research programs.

The university originally resided within the city of Rochester, New York, proper, on a block bounded by the Erie Canal, South Plymouth Avenue, Spring Street, and South Washington Street (approximately 43.15263°N, -77.61516°W).

Anthony's home is a National Historic Landmark known as the National Susan B. Anthony Museum and House.

Susan B. Anthony House, in Rochester, New York, was the home of Susan B. Anthony for forty years, while she was a national figure in the women's rights movement.

In 1847, Frederick Douglass founded the abolitionist newspaper The North Star in Rochester.

The North Star was a nineteenth-century anti-slavery newspaper published from the Talman Building in Rochester, New York by abolitionist Frederick Douglass.

Susan B. Anthony, a national leader of the women's suffrage movement, was from Rochester.

In 1872, Anthony was arrested for voting in her hometown of Rochester, New York, and convicted in a widely publicized trial.

The ice sheets also created Lake Ontario (one of the five freshwater Great Lakes), the Genesee River with its waterfalls and gorges, Irondequoit Bay, Sodus Bay, Braddock Bay, Mendon Ponds, numerous local streams and ponds, the Ridge, and the nearby Finger Lakes.

Mendon Ponds Park is a county park located southeast of Rochester, New York within the suburban towns of Mendon and Pittsford.

The area is the birthplace of Kodak, Western Union, French's, Bausch & Lomb, Gleason and Xerox, which conduct extensive research and manufacturing of industrial and consumer products.

It burned down in 1884 and they relocated the flour mill to Rochester, New York.

Discontent exploded in the 1964 Rochester race riot.

The Rochester 1964 race riot was a riot that occurred in 1964 in Rochester, New York, in the United States.

It was the base of Bond Clothing Stores, Fashion Park Clothes, Hickey Freeman, and Stein-Bloch & Co. The carriage maker James Cunningham and Sons founded the pioneer automobile company Cunningham.

In 1933, company president Barney S. Ruben (1885–1959) moved the manufacturing center of Bond Clothes from New Brunswick, New Jersey to Rochester, New York where he spent his youth and got his start in the clothing industry with Fashion Park Clothes.

Rochester was one of the United States' first boom towns, initially due to the fertile Genesee River Valley, which gave rise to numerous flour mills, and then as a manufacturing hub.

During the past million years there were four glacial ages that covered the Rochester area with the southern edges of the Laurentide Ice Sheet and those advances were major impactors in the formation geology and geography of the area.

The ice sheets also created Lake Ontario (one of the five freshwater Great Lakes), the Genesee River with its waterfalls and gorges, Irondequoit Bay, Sodus Bay, Braddock Bay, Mendon Ponds, numerous local streams and ponds, the Ridge, and the nearby Finger Lakes.

The Genesee River flows northward from its source in northern Pennsylvania to enter Lake Ontario at Rochester, New York.

At the end of the 19th century, anarchist Emma Goldman lived and worked in Rochester for several years, championing the cause of labor in Rochester sweatshops.

They settled upstate, living in the Rochester home which Lena had made with her husband Samuel.

The ice sheets also created Lake Ontario (one of the five freshwater Great Lakes), the Genesee River with its waterfalls and gorges, Irondequoit Bay, Sodus Bay, Braddock Bay, Mendon Ponds, numerous local streams and ponds, the Ridge, and the nearby Finger Lakes.

Braddock Bay, sometimes improperly referred to as Braddock's Bay, is a small bay of Lake Ontario located in Monroe County northwest of Rochester, New York in the United States.

It was the base of Bond Clothing Stores, Fashion Park Clothes, Hickey Freeman, and Stein-Bloch & Co. The carriage maker James Cunningham and Sons founded the pioneer automobile company Cunningham.

Hickey Freeman is a manufacturer of suits for men and boys, based in Rochester, New York, US, founded in 1899.

The principal source of water is Hemlock Lake, which, with its watershed, is owned by the state of New York.

It is mostly located in Livingston County, New York, south of Rochester, with a portion overlapping into Ontario County.