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Map of post-bellum Rochester puts an emphasis upon the city's developing industrial infrastructure: canals, roads, railroads, and a very short-lived steamship to Canada named theNorseman. Oddly, the one specific businesses mentioned is the Rochester…

Five miles downstream from here, the Genesee River empties into Lake Ontario at Charlotte, and the base of the falls has been a major spawning ground for salmon and lake trout until non-native fish like the alewife reduced their numbers. The…

Following the success of George Eastman's introduction of affordable cameras, the company's manufacturing infrastructure expanded rapidly. Postcard announces Rochester company as the "largest industry of its kind in the world." At its height in the…