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Several kiddie rides were located under a porch roof on this spot in the 1950's, including the Horse & Buggy Ride (inset), A decade later, the Go Carts operated here - gas powered carts you'd drive around a track with wooden bumper rails. Soon the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MEN_on-this-site-over-the-years_Rochester-NY.html
Before autos became the primary means of travel, today's south parking lot featreud some popular attractions. Danceland was home to big-name swing bands playing for your dancing pleasure (interior shot insert). The original Dodgem (aka Bumper Cars…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MD3_on-this-site-over-the-years_Rochester-NY.html
1920s - The Dips Coaster & Guessing Game. Hats, Coats, Ties, Dresses
& Knickers! 1940s - Greyhound station becomes "New Scooter". More dresses, 15-cent tickets! 1960s - Herschell Carousel, Double-decker T-birds, Kiddie Coaster. Fewer dresses!
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MD2_on-this-site-over-the-years_Rochester-NY.html
Live acts on the Front Lawn have entertained thousands over the past century. To name just a few: lion & tiger tamers, flying trapeze acts, high diving shows (including horses!), Freddy's Funny Ford, alligator wrestling, song & dance shows, magici…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MBV_the-leopold-lion_Rochester-NY.html
Edward F. Long and his family - the first generation of the family that now owns and operates Seabreeze - began building carousels in Philadelphia in 1876. They built eight major carousela, and the animals were carved in local shops primarily by t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GNF_long-pond-site_Rochester-NY.html
An Iroquois group camped here around 1400 A.D. Ash beds excavated in 1912 yielded artifacts of bone, stone and pottery. County of Monroe, 1961.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CEK_the-founding-of-the-river-campus_Rochester-NY.html
Two events that influenced the University's expansion from Prince Street to the River Campus were the admittance of women in the university as well as the project to build a medical center. In 1910 a man named Abraham Flexner envisioned a new appr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CEJ_to-the-memory-of_Rochester-NY.html
Capt-Lieut. Thomas Boyd, Sergeant Michael Parker, Sergeant Nicholas Hungerman, Sergeant William Floyd, Corporal Calhoun, Oneida Lt. Honyost Thaosagwat and nine volunteer riflemen, John Conrey, Benjamin Curtin, James McElroy, William Faunchey, John…
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In the evening of the ninth of November, 1886,The Manufactory of the Steam Gauge and Lantern Company,while filled with operatives was destroyed by a fierce and sudden fire in which thirty-four lives were lost.The remains of these six, burned beyon…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CAP_trophy-cannon-presented-to-monroe-county-by-hon-o-f-williams_Rochester-NY.html
.Taken from the Spanish flag-ship Reina Christina at Manila Bay, May 1, 1898.
Dedicated November 28, 1902 by L. Bordman Smith Command No. 53, Spanish War Veterans, Memorial to Monroe County Comrades who sacrificed their lives on the altar of t…