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The Erie Canal passes across the county, through the Village of Palmyra. The multi-use, recreational Erie Canal Heritage Trail continues along the towpath of the Erie Canal as well. The south town line is the border of Ontario County. New York State Route 21 (north-south) intersects New York State Route 31 (east-west) in Palmyra village.
The New York Central Railroad (reporting mark NYC) was a railroad primarily operating in the Great Lakes and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The railroad primarily connected greater New York and Boston in the east with Chicago and St. Louis in the Midwest, along with the intermediate cities of Albany, Buffalo, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Detroit, Rochester and Syracuse.
The Erie Canal's harbor was very active in the 19th century. On October 26, 1825, [47] the Erie Canal was completed, formed from part of Buffalo Creek, [48] with Buffalo a port-of-call for settlers heading westward. [49] Buffalo became the western end of the 524-mile waterway starting at New York City. At the time, the population was about ...
On 6 May 1836, an act was passed in the New York Legislature authorizing the construction of the Genesee Valley Canal. It was to run from the Erie Canal on the south side of Rochester south-southwest along the Genesee River valley to Mount Morris, Portageville, and Belfast, and then cross-country to the Allegheny River at Olean, with a branch ...
[20] [21] On March 1, 1921, the mainline of Route 30 was realigned to follow Ridge Road between Ridgeway and the Rochester city line at Greece. [22] When the first set of posted routes in New York were assigned in 1924, the segment of Route 30 from Rochester to Red Creek became part of NY 3. [23]
The Village of Brockport was founded by Heil Brockway in 1822 and later incorporated in 1829 when the Erie Canal was finished being built. [1] The village grew to importance as a port on the Erie Canal. Brockport was briefly the canal's terminus until the canal's western end was complete in 1829. The Brockport Collegiate Institute was founded ...
The corn, rye, barley, wheat, and other grains grown in the Genesee River Valley were shipped down river to be milled in such quantity that by 1838 Rochester was world's largest flour producer, earning it the nickname the Flour City. When the Erie Canal opened in Rochester in 1823 the city became a true western Boomtown, growing from a ...
John Bloomfield Jervis (December 14, 1795 – January 12, 1885) was an American civil engineer.America's leading consulting engineer of the antebellum era (1820–60), Jervis designed and supervised the construction of five of America's earliest railroads, was chief engineer of three major canal projects, designed the famous, pioneering, DeWitt Clinton steam locomotive in 1831 while with the ...