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At 6:30 a.m., Sunday, July 17, 1949, Mrs.Margaret Wagner called Greece Police and said, “A woman is lying in the grass here at Ridge Road

At 6:30 a.m., Sunday, July 17, 1949, Mrs.Margaret Wagner called Greece Police and said, “A woman is lying in the grass here at Ridge Road

Linden, New York, was a tiny village of 300 farmers and apple orchardists ten miles south of Batavia in southernmost Genesee County. It had its

During the fall of 1900, twenty-six-year-old Teresa “Tessie” Keating worked at Brownell’s Camera Works, at the current site of the Kodak Tower, and lived at

Saturday, August 7, 1909, 1 p.m., temperature 92 degrees, humidity uncomfortable. Sixteen-year-old Anna Catherine Schumacher left her home at 162 Cady Street, her mission to

What happens during a total solar eclipse? The eclipse will take place on April 8, 2024. In the (585), the eclipse begins at 2:07 p.m.

It was a different world in Rochester at the dawn of 1925. Up until a few years earlier, the Erie Canal ran through downtown. Now,

During the summer of 1887, Rochester’s population was about 50,000 but rapidly on the rise. Kodak, Bausch and Lomb, French’s, and Sibley’s were all in their infancy. Downtown, where the Erie

At noon on January 8, 1920, a young man’s body wearing only underwear was found off Mosquito Point Road (now Ballantyne Road in the Town

Rochester Police Officer Kevin Yandow was cruising patiently in his patrol car along Genesee Street, heading north from Genesee Valley Park toward Bull’s Head, windshield

Norris Evans, known to her friends as Snookie, was a twenty-seven-year-old mother of four small children who lived at 5 Kron Street in Rochester’s Nineteenth
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