In 1817, The Graham family wondered out of the tree line and settled where Rochester would eventually build into a bustling town. They were from Rochester, New York, and so they dubbed the area Rochester as well and built their little cabin where Main and Second Street now intersect. It turns out that the heavily wooded area that they decided to call home would soon be an industrial center that would shortly make a name for itself due to its proximity to the powerful Clinton River and Paint Creek.

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.

If you’ve lived in Rochester your whole life, you’re probably very familiar with the beautiful Paint Creek. But did you know there was once a damn that broke there and allowed Paint Creek to swallow the entirety of Chapman Mill Pond in 1946? Did you know that the Rollin Sprague Building that currently house “The Home Bakery” was built in 1849 and is the oldest commercial building in town? Did you know the Opera House was built on November 8th, 1890 and has been the cultural epicenter since that day? You may not have known that, but the trees that shade Rochester from the hot sun and paint the grey sky with spidery little frosted branches against the grey sky in the winter saw it all.

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