Living in Greece Stories

Stories and recollections from the people, places, and publications that document life in the Town of Greece.

These articles offer perspectives on what it was like to live in the Town of Greece in the past. Many are from the archives or newsletters of the Greece Historical Society. If you would be interested in learning more about the Town of Greece’s history, please feel free to contact us at (585) 225-7221.

(These stories are the property of the Greece Historical Society, which retains all right thereto. The contributors to these stories provide them for non-commercial, personal, educational, and/or research use only. Prior written permission from the Greece Historical Society and the individual authors must be obtained for any other use, including but not limited to commercial or scholarly publications, or any reproductions or redistribution of any kind.)

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We love to read stories and memories by you or your organization. Submit a local history story or memory of growing up in the Town of Greece by emailing a zip file with your story and photos to greecehistoricalsociety@yahoo.com. Use the subject line: Share My Story of Local History or Memories Of Greece N.Y. plus your story title. Include a brief bio and one photo for publication.

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This ashtray was presented to Judson S Kenyon in 1948, in commemoration of his long-standing involvement in the Greece Republican Party.

Judson S. Kenyon

November 4, 2023 |
An ashtray artifact at the Greece Museum led to the discovery of Judson S. Kenyon, a notable personality from Greece, New York. Born in 1872, Kenyon was highly active in local politics and the Greece Baptist Church, earning a dedicated ashtray from the Greece Republican Party in 1948. He passed...
Categories: 1850-1900 1900-1950 1950-2000 Corinthian Guest Stories Living in Greece Stories
Tags: 1872 1920 1948 1963 Arthur Rickman Ashtray Barry County clerk deacon Deborah Cole Myers elephant Elizabeth L Rowe English Road Falls Cemetery Greece Baptist Church Greece Grange Greece Republican Party historian Juddy Kenyon Judson S. Kenyon Kate (Rickman) Justice Long Pond Rd Michigan Pioneer Families Rhode Island Rochester Business Institute teacher treasurer trustee Willard H Justice Williams James Kenyon
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The Rochester Park Band at Manitou Beach in 1906

July 1, 2020 |
1900s Manitou Beach Postcard Want to have some fun? Let's go on a company picnic to Manitou Beach in the summer of 1906. We'll join the nearly 1,000 employees of James Cunningham & Sons, a huge company with several factories, which, in 1906, was still making horse-drawn carriages, but by...
Categories: 1900-1950 Charlotte Guest Stories Living in Greece Stories
Tags: 1890s 1906 1920 1920s 1924 19th Century 20th Century 54th Regiment Band amusement park at Manitou Beach Automobile Club Baseball Braddock Bay Canal Street Chralotte Elmheart Hotel Fred Zeitler James Cunningham & Sons. Manitou Beach Manitou Beach Hotel Manitou Beach Trolley Manitou Hotel Manitou Trolley New York Central train station Odenbach Hotel Orphans Day Rochester Park Band Theodore Dossenbach William Bausch
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Greece Link to the National Football League

Greece Link to the National Football League

February 1, 2020 |
As we celebrate Super Bowl LIV and the NFL's 100th season, we might want to consider the very "focal" Greece's con­nection to the game. Joseph McShea was a talented athlete who grew up on his family's farm on Dewey Avenue, just north of Latta Road. His great-grandparents emigrated to the...
Categories: 1900-1950 Guest Stories Living in Greece Stories
Tags: 1920 1928 1963 1965 1976 American Professional Football Association Charlotte High School Joseph Maurice McShea Joseph Maurice McShea Jr. Leo Lyons Leo V. Lyons Marie Villone Poinan Mary McShea Miss Marguerite McShea National Football League NFL Pro Football Hall of Fame Rochester Jeffersons Tom McShea Tom Sawnor
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Greece “Roadhouse”

September 1, 2019 |
A Roadhouse (United States, Australia) or stopping house (Canada) according to a recent dictionary is Roadhouse: a tavern or inn along a country road, as in the 1920s. John Frank Maier was born and grew up along with his siblings on Hague St. in Dutch (Deutsch) town. Both his parents were immigrants from...
Categories: 1900-1950 Dewey-Latta area From The Historian's Files Hamlets of Greece Living in Greece Stories
Tags: 18th Amendment 1919 1920 1923 1958 1965 1968 Bar Canada Canadian Canadian Liquor Deutsch Dewey Ave Dewey/Latta Dodge Brothers Dutch Eddie Surridge George Maier Germany Hague St Henry Ford Island Cottage Hotel Jim Davis John Frank Maier John Frank Maier III Juke Box Kirkwood Rd Lake Lake Ontario Latta Road Long Pond Pond Midge Neon Signs Olive Hager Prohibition Restaurant & Residence Roadhouse Round Pond Rum Runners T.W. Beatty and Son. T.W. Beatty and Son. Island Cottage Hotel The Maier Family two-and-a-half-story Volstead Act Wenzel Maier World War II
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“Apples, Pine Trees and Boxing Gloves!”

September 1, 2019 |
We've explained apples and pine trees...... What about boxing gloves...? Mr. Edward Sturm had once been in the furniture business on Joseph Ave. and knew well how to greet custom­ ers and run a successful retail venture. The tavern business was a bit different, but Edward slowly built the Pine...
Categories: 1900-1950 Living in Greece Stories
Tags: 1225 Ridge Road West 1914 1920 1928 1933 1948 1964 Alice Conroy Apples Bankruptcy Bowling Boxing Gloves Clement Versluy Cuba Democrat and Chronicle Edward Sturm Europe Henry Clune Joseph Ave. Lake Ave Man­itou Road Mexico Mike Conroy Pine Tree Inn Pine Trees Shale Gans Shales (Sol) Gans Speakeasies
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