It’s a town known for its abundant water resources and natural areas, but once, those waterways were the way to access the industrial revolution going on in the States and especially in and around the U.S.
The abundant water power became a through-way as well as a source of power for the industrial efforts of the town and transportation. The industries that flowered in old world Rochester included a paper products company, sugar beets factory and the Western Knitting Mills factory that still stands today. It was changed into a World War 2 factory for incendiary production uses.