Awakening feelings of nostalgia and communitydeep within each of us, the images contained inRochester deliver us to a time when Hanson's Streetwas but a footpath through Domincus Hanson'sgarden, and Central Square was filled with bustlingbusinesses and the whistle of the railroad.This new photographic history takes us on a journeyfrom the era following the Civil War when the townbecame a city and Dodge's Hotel was a prominentfeature downtown, to the days of drugstore sodafountains and shiny new filling stations. Over 200views of Rochester, Gonic, and East Rochester fill thepages of this volume, each image helping us to satisfyour curiosity about the past and enabling us to makeconnections with the fast-moving times of the present.
Rochester native Florence Horne Smith has worked many long hours with other volunteers in the extensive archives of the Rochester Historical Society to compile this wonderful collection. It is the author's fondest wish that this new book will awaken memories of a different way of living for the older generation, and introduce the young to how life used to be.