The Greece Historical Society shared brief videos. These videos help commemorate the 200th anniversary of the founding of the Town of Greece. This series started on Tuesday, March 22, 2022, and concluded on March 21st, 2023. This series has shared many details about the people and events that influenced the town’s evolution. The topics in the Snapshots were researched, written, and narrated by Maureen Whalen. All the snapshots are edited and produced by Pat Worboys. We hope that you will find these videos both interesting and informative.
We would like to thank the following people, town officials, fire departments, school districts, newspapers, and news stations. They provided all the images and information. We used these to compile these snapshots for you to learn more about the history of the Town of Greece.
We would like to thank Gina DiBella, Bill Sauers, and Marie Poinan. We also thank Douglas Worboys, Gene Preston, Jane Grant, Robert Bilsky, and Ralph DeSptephano Sr. for their contributions to the snapshots. Alan Mueller, Joseph Vitello, Pat Worboys, Carolyn Kerheart, and many more contributed significantly. Some of the notes and research are from people who are no longer with us. We would like to give credit to Helen Slocum. Virginia Tomkiewicz, Shirley Cox Husted, and William Aeberli also deserve credit. We especially want to acknowledge Lorraine Kress Beane.
We would like to thank the following organizations for the use of their images. They include North Greece Fire Department, Greece Ridge/Ridge Road Fire District, and Barnard Fire Department. We also thank The Office of the Greece Historian. Other organizations include Rochester Public Library, The University of Rochester, and Rochester Institute of Technology. We also thank Democrat and Chronicle, 13 Wham TV, WHEC, WROC, and Spectrum News. Thanks also to Mother of Sorrows, Greece Baptist Church, Greece United Methodist Church, and Greece Central School District. Finally, The Landmark Society of Western New York, Rochester Museum and Science Center, and others contributed.
Each snapshot will contain a description of the video. Some of the posts will contain information that is written to explain content that was not included in the video. This content is related to the video so you can understand its connection to the snapshot. They also include related articles that were written in the society’s newsletter. They have links to buy some of the books that the society has published over the years. These are to enhance the subjects that are covered in the Snapshots that are put together each week.
If you have ideas or topics that you would like to see covered in this or a different future series, please let us know. You can reach us via our Facebook page. You can also let us know by submitting a request for a snapshot topic or subject.
This week on our Bicentennial Snapshot we explore two of the most visited General Stores out of two neighborhoods the first one will be H.C. Phelps Located on the southwest corner at Latta and North Greece and the second one is Gilbert (Burt) J Wagg’s Groceries and Provisions Located where Tim Horton’s is today at Lake Ave, Ridge Road and Pullman Ave…
Read MoreRochester went from being the flour city to the Flower city. But actually, the nursery industry in Monroe County started in Greece. And it started with Asa Rowe and James Vick…
Read MoreThis week we continue the look at the central commercial district in the town most of you know as The Ridge. In the bicentennial snapshot # 11 the Ridge Part 1 – we started out with the life of the ridge forming from the glacial thru just the starting of Eastman Kodak company at Ridge…
Read MoreThis week we turn our attention to the central commercial district in the town most of you know as The Ridge. In this two part snapshot. In Part one we look at the beginnings of the ridge and why the ridge is the most busiest road it the town…
Read MoreThis week we introduce you to Samuel and Lydia and George and Frances Latta, one of the preeminent families of the Town of Greece…
Read MoreHolden, a veteran of the War of 1812, came to Greece in 1817 to be the Deputy Collector and Surveyor of the port. In 1822, he became the first lighthouse keeper, a position he held until 1834. He was also a Greece Justice of the Peace, a Supervisor of the Town of Greece, and head of the Charlotte Board of Health during a cholera epidemic…
Read MoreThis week we celebrate the Charlotte-Genesee Lighthouse, the oldest active lighthouse on Lake Ontario, which is also marking its bicentennial. We trace its history from its construction in 1822 on land deeded from the Hincher family to the abandonment of the tower and the removal of the light to the west pier, to its restoration as an active lighthouse again in 2014…
Read MoreThis week we conclude our three-part presentation on the attacks along the Greece shores of Lake Ontario during the War of 1812. Today we look at the battle fought on May 15, 1814. What occurred then never made it into any national history books, but is legendary in local history. Initially, 33 men from the volunteer militia responded to the sighting of the British fleet at the mouth of the Genesee River and fooled Commodore Sir James Yeo into thinking that they were “a substantial force” until more regiments could join them to turn away the enemy…
Read MoreThis week we continue with part two of three presentations on the attacks along the Greece shores of Lake Ontario during the War of 1812. Today we look at the battle fought on September 11, 1813. For two years American Commodore Isaac Chauncey and British Commodore Sir James Yeo maneuvered for control of Lake Ontario. When they met at the mouth of the Genesee River on September 11, 1813, it was only their second direct engagement with each other. That morning the American fleet caught up with the becalmed British fleet at Braddock Bay. At 2:30 p.m., just offshore of Charlotte, Chauncey, and his fleet had closed to within ¾ of a mile of Yeo, putting him in long-gun range. The flagship, Pike, and the Sylph began to fire their cannons at the British fleet; the bombardment lasted for 90 minutes…
Read MoreThis week we begin a three-part presentation on the attacks along the Greece shores of Lake Ontario during the War of 1812. Today we look at the British attacks that occurred on October 1, 1812, and June 15, 1813. At first, there was little support for the war in the Lake Ontario shoreline settlements. The causes of the war were not their grievances. They enjoyed a healthy trade relationship with their Canadian neighbors and it seemed so unlikely that the war would impact them. However, once British warships visited their shore and bombarded them with cannonballs their attitude changed; they realized that the war could be at their doors any time the lake was navigable, especially as Charlotte was a site where provisions for the troops were stockpiled…
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